Examples of 'balls-up' in a sentence

Meaning of "balls-up"

balls-up (noun) - a slang term referring to a mistake, error, or failure, often used informally to describe a mess or blunder
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  • Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.

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This is the biggest balls-up in police history.
That could have been the biggest balls-up.
It was a complete and utter balls-up and I have had a terrible day, thanks largely to you.
From a national triumph to a complete and utter balls-up.
Especially after that balls-up with Hanley.
Tell that to the families still on the dole after the last balls-up.
That was a balls-up with a cherry on top.
You are producing it with my money anyway and you are making a balls-up of it.
Right balls-up of that one.
God knows how you managed to make such a balls-up of this.
It means there was a balls-up at the factory and they put the wrong chimes in!
But some joker tries to hit me for a million quid, looks like there is been a balls-up.
It was a complete balls-up on my part.
I tried to cook for you, but it was a balls-up.
Here, this fella 's making a complete balls-up of castrating this alpaca.

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London air traffic closed until 7pm due to computer balls-up.
After the balls-up that was today, I need this.
I do not need to tell you what a combination of conspiracy and balls-up that investigation was.
After the balls-up of the ambush . you are a two, at best.
Looks like there is been a baLLs-up.
This is the balls-up right here!
It was a complete and utter balls-up.
After that balls-up at the ambush, you're a two at best.
But there was a balls-up.
No balls-up this time.
What a bleeding balls-up.
No balls-up this time . Closing off.
Cos it was only a balls-up.
But you have made a balls-up of this one, have not you?
We were supposed to land before dawn . But there was a balls-up.
What about the complete bloody balls-up at Gallipoli? Or the Song.
Everyone must hang . Due to this monumental balls-up.
Of course, Mozambique . That was a balls-up with a cherry on top.
It 's a shame the rest of your operation 's a bit of a balls-up.
You write clever books . But you have made a balls-up of this one, have not you?
Levine himself later told The Guardian, "It was an absolute balls-up fiasco.
You write clever books . But you have made a balls-up of this one, have not you? Have I?
Well, thanks to my help, I suppose it 's not a total balls-up.
What about the complete bloody balls-up at Gallipoli?
Well done, guv. That could have been the biggest balls-up.
They made a balls-up.
It 's a complete and utter balls-up.
I suppose it's not a total balls-up.
You're producing it with my money anyway… and making a balls-up of it, too.

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