flub the dub
flub the dub
Inf. to fail to do the right thing. Martin is flubbing the dub with the fund-raising campaign. Please don't flub the dub this time.
See also: dub, flub
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
flub the dub
tv. to fail to do the right thing. Martin is flubbing the dub with the fund-raising campaign.
See also: dub, flub
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
flub the dub, to
To loaf or evade duty; also, to bungle or botch. This term dates from the first half of the 1900s and became widely current during World War II. Early on it also was slang for male masturbation, but that sense has not survived. John Hersey used it in G.I. Laughs (1943), “Wanders from barracks to barracks . . . generally flubbing his dub.” And D. Stagg (in Glory Jumpers (1959), “The Air Corps flubbed the dub again and scattered the drop.”
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- flub the dub, to
- dubya
- dub-dub-dub
- Run that by again
- dub out
- flub
- flub something up
- flub up
- flub-up
- dub in