Usually means: Make a significant embarrassing mistake.
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  1. drop a clanger: Merriam-Webster
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  1. drop a clanger: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drop a clanger)

▸ verb:  (informal) To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Similar:
drop a bollock, cack up, blat, clatter, boo-boo, clank, blurt, clacket, blurt out, blow the gaff, more...

Opposite:
nail it, hit mark, succeed, do well

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Similar:
drop a bollock, cack up, blat, clatter, boo-boo, clank, blurt, clacket, blurt out, blow the gaff, more...

Opposite:
nail it, hit mark, succeed, do well



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