Synonyms for drop the ball
drop the ball

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1. drop the ballverb

   Synonyms:
   screw the pooch, fall on ones face, fuck up

2. drop the ballverb

   To fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative.

   Synonyms:
   fall on ones face, fuck up, screw the pooch

Princeton's WordNet

1. drop the ball, sin, blunder, boob, goofverb

   commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

   "I blundered during the job interview"

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1. • Transgress

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1. Modesto Police Chief Galen Carroll:

   The Modesto Police did not drop the ball.

2. Sam Greene:

   By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get.