へま

blunder

【C】大失敗， 不覚∥ make a blunder へまをする

**mistake

【C】失敗

*mess

【U】［or a ～］ 失敗∥ make a precious mess of it 大変なへまをやる / A pretty mess you have made! とんだへまをやったね

boob

【C】《略式》どじ， へま∥ make a boob へまをやる.

▲a ghastly mistake ひどいへま / look down to hide one's mistake へまを隠そうとして目を伏せる.

◇→へまをする

blunder
bungle
gaffe

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へま

( ⇒ しっぱい )

blunder

〖C〗大失敗， 不覚

make a blunder へまをする

**mistake

〖C〗失敗

*mess

〖U〗［or a ～］ 失敗

make a precious mess of it 大変なへまをやる

A pretty mess you have made! とんだへまをやったね

boob

〖C〗《略式》どじ， へま

make a boob へまをやる.

▲a ghastly mistake ひどいへま

look down to hide one's mistake へまを隠そうとして目を伏せる.

◇ → へまをする

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へま

1 〔軽率な失敗〕 a blunder; a bungle; a mess(-up); 《口》 a bloomer; a snafu; 《米》 a boner; a goof; 《英》 a boob; a pig's ear; 《俗》 a cock-up; a fuck-up; a gaffe.

●へまをやらかす[やる, する] bungle; make a blunder; mess (sth) up; get into a mess; make a mess [muff, hash] of 《it》; botch; 《口》 make a bloomer; 《米》 do a boner; goof (up); 《英》 boob; make a pig's ear 《of a job》; 《俗》 cock [fuck] (sth) up

・とんだへまをしでかしてくれたものだ. What an awful [a fine] mess you've made of it!

・さっそくへまをやらかした. He's put his foot in [into] it already.

・へまを重ねる pile blunder upon blunder; bungle things repeatedly; 《俗》 cock things up one after another.

●あいつはへまばかりやっている. He does nothing but mess things up. | He's always getting things wrong.

2 ～な 〔間の抜けた〕 tactless; awkward; bungling; clumsy; stupid.

●へまなやり口 a bungling way; a clumsy approach

・へまなことを言う say sth tactless; speak awkwardly

・へまなやつ a bungler; a stupid fellow.

●彼女の前に出るといつもへまなことを言ったりしたりしてしまう. I always (go and) say and do the wrong thing in front of her.

・盗みに入った家で金をせびられるとはへまな泥棒だ. Someone who breaks into a house and ends up handing over money (to the people there) isn't much of a thief.