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Drop a clanger
Verb
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Verb
To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
"I dropped a clanger when I mentioned how well Mary's mother had been looking recently. I didn't know that she died two days ago."
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