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Examples of clanger
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If your American owner drops another clanger when he appoints your next manager.
From the expressandstar.com
Will they pick out that defence splitting pass or will they simply drop a clanger.
From the newarkadvertiser.co.uk
The only clanger was the crackling, one half of which was flabby and inedible.
From the guardian.co.uk
Unfortunately, the device chosen by Urquhart to frame her story is a clanger.
From the guardian.co.uk
Sure they'd occasionally drop a clanger, but think of the vibrant rugby they produced.
From the nzherald.co.nz
In individual sports there is far more scope for a favoured contender dropping a clanger.
From the nzherald.co.nz
If someone drops a clanger midmeal, do the best you can to change the subject with a question.
From the cnn.com
Minutes later Richards volleyed home from inside the box after another clanger by Ryan Taylor.
From the people.co.uk
It was old William Orton of Western Union, though, who surely dropped the biggest clanger of all.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"
- (clanging) clangorous: having a loud resonant metallic sound; "the clangorous locomotive works"; "a clanging gong"
- Clangers is a British stop motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet in dark space. They speak in low whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon. ...
- (Clanging) In psychology and psychiatry, clanging or clang association refers to a mode of speech and logical association to two or more words primarily based upon word sounds when no logical association between the words exists. ...
- A very visible mistake (with reverberating consequences); an attention-getting faux pas; a jarring error; A mistake made by a player, counted in the game statistics; the official description is "errors including frees against"; An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass ...
- (Clanging) Occasional manifestation of thought disorder in schizophrenia, in which individuals rhyme sentences unnecessarily, such as "I feel better now, as I watch a cow".
- (clanging) In schizophrenia, the pairing of words that have no relation to one another beyond the fact that they rhyme or sound alike.
- A glaring or embarrassing mistake or remark.
- A really big lie, a shock
