famous last words
informalDefinition
› said when someone makes a statement that is shown very soon, and in an embarrassing way, to be wrong: I told him categorically that we could never be anything more than friends. Famous last words! Within a few months we were engaged.Making mistakes
(Definition of famous last words from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Accurate and exact
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- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
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Synonyms and related words:
- balls (sth) up phrasal verb
- blunder verb (MISTAKE)
- bodge noun, verb
- boob verb
- botch verb
- confuse verb
- drop the ball idiom
- err verb
- fault noun (MISTAKE)
- goof verb
- misdirect verb
- misstate verb
- of your own making idiom
- put sth out phrasal verb (MAKE WRONG)
- put your foot in it idiom
- sign your own death warrant idiom
- slip up phrasal verb
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- stumble verb (PAUSE)
- trip (sb) up phrasal verb (FAIL)
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