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clanger
/ ˈæŋə /
noun
informala conspicuous mistake (esp in the phrase drop a clanger )
something that clangs or causes a clang
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of clanger1
Idioms and Phrases
drop a clanger, to blunder.
Example Sentences
She even pulls off lines that should be clangers: “I really hope we don’t die in a land mine today.”
“Here’s a clanger,” Sydney said, noticing an obvious mistake.
Its flowers are extravagant, with an extra-long, maroon-purple clanger dangling from each fuchsia bell; its distinctive leaves are heart shaped, with toothed edges.
Scandal followed him as closely as adulation, as Warne took money from illegal bookmakers, was banned for using prohibited drugs and sailed through gossip-column indiscretions and social media clangers.
"Occasionally he came out with a real clanger, but mostly he was just trying to be pleasant and light-hearted," she added in a BBC Radio Devon interview.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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