drop the ball

뜻

to make a mistake by failing to deal with something

해야 할 일을 제대로 처리하지 못해 실수하다.

예문

1. 1Someone dropped the ball, and nobody booked the coach for the school trip.
2. 2I'm sorry I dropped the ball on your birthday — I completely forgot to order the cake.
3. 3The agency dropped the ball with our visas, so we missed the first week of the holiday.
4. 4If the IT team drops the ball on the new system again, everyone's pay will be late.
5. 5Who dropped the ball and forgot to tell the caterers there were fifty guests?

문법

drop만 형태가 바뀌며, p가 겹친다: dropped, dropping. 소홀히 한 일은 흔히 on이나 with 뒤에 온다.