foul-up in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for foul-up in the English»Spanish Dictionary

foul-up [Am ˈfaʊl ˌəp, Brit ˈfaʊlʌp] N inf

foul-up

desastre m

foul-up

cagada f vulg sl

foul up VB [Am faʊl -, Brit faʊl -] (v + o + adv, v + adv + o) (v + adv)

1. foul up (spoil):

foul up plan

estropear

foul up plan

arruinar

2. foul up (bungle):

foul up inf

fastidiar inf

foul up (bungle) Am inf

meter la pata inf

I.first class <attr first-class> [ˌfəːstˈklɑːs] ADJ

1. first class (of highest grade):

first class hotel/ticket

de primera clase

first class travel

en primera (clase)

she has a first-class degree Brit

≈ se recibió con la nota más alta (en AmL)

she has a first-class degree Brit

≈ sacó la carrera con matrícula de honor (en Esp)

the acting was first class

la actuación fue de primera

2.1. first class (excellent):

first class performance/book/athlete

de primera

first class performance/book/athlete

de primer orden

first class bore/idiot

de marca mayor

2.2. first class (full-blown) attr:

first class scandal/row/foul-up

de primera magnitud

3. first class Brit (highest priority):

first-class mail

correspondencia enviada a una tarifa superior, que garantiza una rápida entrega

4. first class Am MIL after n:

private first class

cabo m primero

sergeant first class

brigada m

II.first class [ˌfəːstˈklɑːs] ADV

first class travel/fly:

first class

en primera (clase)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

It's not that the other mini-games on offer foul up this balance.

www.pocketgamer.co.uk

People make mistakes, it's not worth quitting your profession if you foul up, it's about taking responsibility for your errors and fixing them.

www.macleans.ca

I refuse to foul up our time lines this way.

en.wikipedia.org

Because of its very small internal diameter the gas port tended to foul up with repeated firings thus leading to weaker and weaker bolt returns in prolonged use.

en.wikipedia.org

Some civil servants have faced disciplinary actions but more often the punishments are lighter than the gravity of the foul up.

www.themalaymailonline.com

Enough is enough of all those pointless brinkmanship with the government that achieves no purposes except foul up a bad situation even more.

punchng.com

There is nothing, it seems -- from protecting civil rights to safeguarding the environment -- that big government bureaucracies can't foul up.

www.slate.com

But sometimes it's the harbour's human visitors that foul up the seabed.

www.stuff.co.nz

You don't want to be sliding it around into place; you'll get thermal paste everywhere and foul up the connection.

www.techradar.com

However, it is more likely for the heat exchanger to foul up faster and the small size makes mechanical cleaning of the fouling difficult.

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