Spanish word
meter la pata
/meˌteɾ la ˈpata/
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- Part of speech
- phrase
- Register
- colloquial
- Level
- B2
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to put one's foot in it
- to mess up; slip up; screw up, to put one's foot in one's mouthcolloquial
- drop the ball(fail in one’s responsibilities)
- flub(to err)Mexico
- fuck up(to make a mistake, to go wrong)
- fumble(to handle nervously or awkwardly)
- put one's foot in one's mouth(say or do something embarrassing or wrong)
- screw the pooch(to fail)
- screw up(colloquial: to blunder)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)