Meanings of botch in English

However, I also strongly believe in the right to spoil your vote.

I wanted to spoil the party by a long way, Abbott said.

No way was he going to let a woman spoil the moment.

We should not interfere in case we spoil an official criminal investigation.

The only result will be to spoil the control of the aeroplane.

Leaders who fumble crises like these often pay a high political price.

I fumble for my phone, then speed-dial the last number-theDuty Officer.

Linebacker Luke Kuechly recovered the fumble at the New Orleans 45-yard line.

Indianapolis cornerback Vontae Davis forced the fumble, and safety Mike Adams recovered.

Undaunted by his fumble, Stidham kept the pressure on the Bulldogs' defense.

Then she picked up the muff in which the letter lay hidden.

But the muff lay in her lap, ponderous with its rich enclosures.

So across the street, her nose in her muff, ran Margaret Elizabeth.

She also carried a new beaver muff, but in one hand only.

Then, just as she was, hands in muff, she entered the parlour.

The Company's cellulose fibers product portfolio includes fluff, market and specialty pulps.

No permanent space means there's no place for postcards or personal fluff.

Let me trim out all the fluff and get to work, already!

Sunrise disclosed the world trimmed from horizon to horizon in fairy fluff.

You think I am being dramatic, building fluff when there isn't any.

Rusty patched bumble bee proposed for U.S. endangered species status The U.S.

A bumble-bee alighted and strolled on the crown of his Panama hat.

When my godson grows up, he wants to be a bumble bee.

Children, have you ever seen a wild bees' nest- arealbumble-bees 'home

Bees, bumble bees, and even wasps were the victims of his strange voracity.

Well, you made a dog's bollocks of that, didn't you, little Beta?

Listen, Doc, I don't need to know all the technical bollocks.

I don't write at a certain time each day - bollocks to that.

It was just a moment of exasperation and I thought, 'bollocks to it'.

They think it's all bollocks and are prepared to say so.

A bobble at the start can reduce that margin in a flash.

On Stubbs's desk, beside his laptop, is a Jerry Falwell bobble-head doll.

A plate that has a little bobble, all of them, any so.

Famous faces gave salopettes, skis and bobble hats a forever fashion status.

She shoved the shoulder straps down, and let her tits bobble free.

Remember what a furious bodge that turned out to be?

But it works well, and makes you realise how often other crime shows bodge their endings. 22.

I was far too tired, and not in the mood; I made a bodge of narrating my report.

The bodge job is so dodge, the trains sport disabled accessible toilets that wheelchairs can't properly fit into.

And then they bodge it.

Clinton and her staff maintain she did not mishandle any information.

It doesn't matter that the ministers and their courtiers shamelessly mishandle the nation's affairs.

As the West continuous to mishandle the electronic jihad it is proving the militants right.

The group said in a statement that officials have mishandled the situation.

Both sides mishandled the crisis that followed, leading to the final split.

That really was bizarre, but not costly, as the captain Schaars made a total bollix of the corner.

Since he declined to return their ball, the youths would assuredly have called him a "speccy bollix".

They thought for a while and came up with what they agreed was a much more acceptable word: "bollix".

Someday I would look back on it with disbelief, knowing the only thing I'd accomplished with Iola was to bollix my chances with this woman.

You didn't get this bollixed up without lots and lots of planning.

It was the day she threw her ball up into the tree.

I thought we ran the ball up the court with a purpose.

Five strokes later I picked my ball up out of the bunker.

Throw the ball up, and Mr. Randolph Rover held out his hands.

It seems as if some one had thrown a ball up there.

True, viruses muck up computers and networks, and cost a fortune in downtime.

If the suits want to hopelessly muck up their own network, let them.

Just release the spray or muck up the chemical balance in his Pirbuterol Acetate.

Rather than muck up a good thing, Dearborn opted for a touchup over a makeover.

But it's an opportunity we could still muck up.

You didn't get this bollixed up without lots and lots of planning.

This brain is bollixed up about reality and I can't analyze it.

Tom would get all bollixed up trying to set up even a little tent.

He wondered if he'd bollixed up the breaks.

Damn, I'm going to enjoy that almost as much as I am bollixing up my dear old friend Ralph's campaign.'

'We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.'

And of course there are plenty of neurotics around, people who'd louse up heaven itself.

Only trouble is, they louse up the range scale.

Moral: Thou shalt not convert thy neighbor's wife, nor yet louse up they neighbor's life.

You did us a favor by giving us advance notice; why should we louse up your show for you?

I was this close to hornin' in on your conversation, but then I figured why louse up a sale for you?

Finally I realised that if you foul up, you move on.

At least now we know for certain that we didn't foul up the initialization process.

You can't even trust them to foul up dependably.

He didn't want anything to foul up this reunion.

Look on the bright side, the water should foul up that white fire of theirs.

If I mess up, I have to lead by example and go.

They mess up budgets, and the HSE must live within its budget.

The last thing you want to do is mess up that moment.

I just don't want anything to happen to mess up this sale.

What if I do bad?' I was really afraid to mess up.

But the second time they operate it'll be harder to fuck up.

Now it's time to cowboy the fuck up and deal with it.

And we can always make an exception if you really fuck up.

That's what could happen if you fuck up when you're in charge.

Tyrone glared at him, as if to say, shut the fuck up.

I must botch up the accounts, I see,-thesquire has grown sharp.

Are you affected by Auckland Council's consenting botch up?

Gillard accepts complete responsibility for the "real Julia" botch up in the 2010 campaign.

The Prime Minister says a botch up that allowed a woman with Covid-19 to leave isolation is unacceptable.

The Prime Minister is facing his first political botch up as questions continue to swirl around the Internal Affairs Minister.

The new commonwealth must arouse, and screw up the brakes much tighter.

Mr. Lansing could not screw up his courage to resign in 1916.

I will have my hair frizzed, and screw up an imposing cue.

I've been trying for days to screw up my courage to speak.

Mendax wanted something innocuous, which wouldn't screw up the 1000 lines permanently.