clanger

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Jerry full well understood my clanger, and I saw him wringing his hands in his anxiety; yet he saw that he could do nothing to help me.

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  • His only risk is dropping some obvious clanger, like using the same phoney address twice. —  dummy 3
  • Another clanger was to be covered by the finest grade of wool on earth. —  process 10
  • Nokia drops 5800 XpressMusic clanger: no UK availability in 2008 —  HEXUS.lifestyle : News
  • At a private dinner he dropped what appeared to be a clanger - that he would not recommend Telstra shares to his mother. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • WHENEVER television drops a monumental clanger, it's often tempting to try to imagine the conversation that should've taken place between writer and production company.
 

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