Question of the Day #879

Biden's latest gaffe on student loan bailout plan may come back to haunt him

From the headline of this article at Fox News.

  上記の文で、gaffeの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "gaffe" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈フランス語〉失敗、しくじり、へま、失言、失策、〔知らず知らずに犯す〕社会的失態

   

Answer

According to :

1. a social or diplomatic blunder
2. a noticeable mistake

 

Examples

• He realized that he had committed an awful gaffe when he mispronounced her name.
• I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife "Judy", which is the name of his ex-wife.
• Hopefully she will soon make another major gaffe and disappear back to the wilds, after sadly setting back the cause of women in American politics by decades. - The Sun (2016)
• Bette Midler stirred up quite a bit of confusion over a famous line in Hocus Pocus last week, all thanks to a social media gaffe. — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2022
• Not many Americans noticed the gaffe, but the British press did. — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022

   

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