drop the ball

意思

to make a mistake by failing to deal with something

沒處理好該辦的事而出錯.

例句

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?

文法

只有 drop 變化形式，並雙寫 p：dropped、dropping。被疏忽的事常跟在 on 或 with 之後。