cock up

• Фразовый глагол, означающий испортить или разрушить что-либо из-за некомпетентности или небрежности; напортачить.

A phrasal verb meaning to ruin or spoil something through incompetence or carelessness; to make a mess of something.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. To make a mistake or mess upinformalbritish

   To do something incorrectly or to cause a failure, often in a clumsy or careless way.

   Испортить

   • He really cocked up the presentation by forgetting the main points.
   • They cocked up the order and sent the wrong items.
   • I cocked up the recipe by adding too much salt.

   Synonymsblunderbotchbungleflubfoul upmess upmishandlemuck upruinscrew upspoil

   Antonymscorrectfixrepairsucceed