Mistake Phrases

Phrases

• A bit of a porridge
• A slip of a thing
• A slip of the pen
• Accident prone
• Accident waiting to happen
• Acknowledge the corn
• An accident waiting to happen
• Balls up
• Blot your copybook
• Brain fart
• Career limiting move
• Chapter of accidents
• Cock up
• Commentator's curse
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Dig your own grave
• Doing a Ratner
• Drop a brick
• Drop a clanger
• False alarm
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Foot in mouth
• Freudian slip
• Frock horror
• Generous to a fault
• Get your fingers burnt
• Give someone the slip
• Give the slip
• Glaring mistake
• Go wrong
• Happy accident
• Honest mistake
• How wrong can you be?
• Human error

• If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything
• If you think that you have another think coming
• It's not what you think
• Jump to the wrong conclusion
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let it slip through your fingers
• Let something slip
• Make no mistake
• Mistakes have been made
• My bad
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Pull a boner
• Put a foot wrong
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Score an own goal
• Screwed up
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Slip and slide
• Slip of the tongue
• Slip on a banana skin
• Slip the collar
• Slip up
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Mistake On The Lake (Nickname of Cleveland Ohio)
• There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
• These things happen
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Trial and error
• Way off beam
• Way off the mark
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)