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screw the pooch

To screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.

Etymology:

  • 1950s, from earlier fuck the dog, later sense of “make an embarrassing mistake”. Popularized by use by Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff, and film adaptation The Right Stuff.
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schraube das Hündchen

vis le chien

avvitare il cane

skruva pooch

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