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Перевод: gaffe

[существительное]
ошибка ; оплошность ; ложный шаг

Тезаурус:

1. This culminated in their gaffe on the Comrade's birthday in 1989 when Scnteia carried a telegram of birthday greetings from the Queen which was promptly denied by the British Government.
2. Hardly earth-shattering stuff, but it was thought to have been a gaffe, and interviewers clock up politicians' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks.
3. Her unfortunate gaffe over tea made it impossible for Elisabeth to offer any excuse when Mitzi Baum accosted her on the stairs on the way to dinner and asked her to share her table.
4. Earlier this year Gardiner reported profits of only 6m, well below expectations, because of a financial gaffe - overestimating margins.
5. David Coleman has unwittingly given his name to this tradition of sporting gaffe published mercilessly in Private Eye , of which Murray Walker's "this car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind, which is identical" must stand for the many.
6. The following year, she became Health Minister - a post which grew in importance as Mr William Waldegrave piled gaffe on gaffe as Secretary of State.
7. Before his gaffe yesterday Mr Hurd said: "We have got the community back on track.
8. I think printing Hartley Peavey's letter in the same issue as mine was maybe a bit of a gaffe - but I hope the local amp repairer doesn't have a slip of the brain when he fixes your amp, or your local mechanic doesn't connect up your battery in the car properly.
9. "Oh, Mr Varna, I'm so sorry" she stuttered, even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies.
10. The story "You'll Enjoy It when You Get There" is an amusing expansion of a gaffe of her own at a "trade banquet"; but the central figure is a young girl deputizing for her mother.
11. After pointing out that Mrs Shephard was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Mr Major then made what was probably the nearest thing to a gaffe in the campaign: "She's a splendid acquisition, don't you think?" he said to a packed conference centre.
12. What an academic gaffe - that was the year that saw the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species , a book that was to shake the very foundations of Western thought!