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screw up
verb
to bungle; to fail in a task; to perform something poorly US, 1942- You’re screwing things up. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 232, 1947
- Because if I feel down or screwed it up, I’d never live to fumble another one. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 48, 1953
- I’m not going to screw it up just because you people got hot pants. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 74, 1971
- I am not flying smoothly, accurately, conservatively. In fact, I am screwing up in a big way — Robert Prest, F4 Phantom, 1979
- If you screw up, I can promise you, you’re goin’ down. — 48 Hours, 1982
- [T]oo busy giving the eye to some little sister hasn’t even screwed up her GCSEs [examinations] yet. — John Williams, Cardiff Dead, p. 3, 1999
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