Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
...meter la pata, metida de pata...
English translation:
goof up, goof, foul-up, f...-up, louse up, screw up, go wrong, mess up, mess and a half
Added to glossary by
Lillian van den Broeck
Apr 10, 2005 12:36
19 yrs ago
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Spanish term
Ready Comprehensive 30 year experience
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
...meter la pata, metida de pata...
Spanish to English
Other
Linguistics
Regular or street language (informal)
Algo que no sea to put one's foot in it, sino quizá más callejero o común... ¡Qué metida de pata, por Dios! Mil gracias por anticipado.
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5 mins
Lillian van den Broeck
Mexico
Mexico
Native in Spanish
Works in field
Mexico
Lillian van den Broeck, writer and poet
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish, and 3 more.
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goof yup, goof, foul-up, f...-up, louse up, screw up, go wrong, mess up, mess and a half
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-04-10 12:44:09 GMT)
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bark up the wrong tree, miss by a mile,count one\'s chickens before they\'re hatched, blow card...
The Random House Thesaurus of Slang,
or... \"Make a mistake\"
Hope it helps!
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-04-10 12:44:50 GMT)
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oh, ant it\'s \"goof up\",not \"yup\"
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-04-10 13:01:43 GMT)
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oops, and its not \"ant\", it\'s \"and\" (this is goofing up)
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-04-10 12:44:09 GMT)
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bark up the wrong tree, miss by a mile,count one\'s chickens before they\'re hatched, blow card...
The Random House Thesaurus of Slang,
or... \"Make a mistake\"
Hope it helps!
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Note added at 8 mins (2005-04-10 12:44:50 GMT)
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oh, ant it\'s \"goof up\",not \"yup\"
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Note added at 24 mins (2005-04-10 13:01:43 GMT)
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oops, and its not \"ant\", it\'s \"and\" (this is goofing up)
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moken
: :O) ¡Hola Lillian! Muy bien, gracias - excepto esto de trabajar en domingo pero, ¿qué te voy a contar...? :O) :O)
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Hola Álvaro, gracias, ¡cómo te va?
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Irena
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Mil gracias Irena.
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Yvonne Becker
: Me quedo con "screw up"
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Hola Smash, muchas gracias.
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Leopoldo Gurman
2 hrs
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Thank you Leopoldo.
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Marta Bianchi
2 hrs
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Marta, mil gracias.
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Ernesto de Lara
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Hola Ernesto, gracias.
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Margarita Palatnik (X)
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Gracias Margarita.
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Jaime Oriard
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Muchas gracias Jaime.
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Carmen Cieslar
: also, blow it (i blew it)
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Gracias Carmen, sí.
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Cristina Santos
: mess up
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Hola Cristina, gracias.
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LindseyH
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Thanks a lot Lindsey!
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: I like your original set better than the ones you mentioned later.
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Hi Muriel, Thank you.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Bueno, agotaste el diccionario. Mil gracias y cuídate."
8 mins
to suffer from foot in mouth desease
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Peer comment(s):
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: This is cute because of the parallel with "foot." But doesn't the expression refer to acts as well as speech?
1 day 7 hrs
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gaffe
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1 hr
Screw it
not very formal
2 hrs
to make a right pig's dinner of something
Not as strong as c--up; but it means to do nothing right.
+2
2 hrs
Paul García
United States
United States
Native in Spanish
&
English
Works in field
United States
calidad y rapidez / quality and speed
Native in: English , Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
screw things up
"meter pata" I've only heard in Puerto Rico, a lot! It implies putting one's nose or two cents in things or matters which would have been better left alone. It's a fairly low level, though not vulgar, phrase...
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Refugio
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gracias un millón
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Claudia Luque Bedregal
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mil gracias
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3 hrs
¡ Oh shit !
Gabriel, si esto fuera en Estados Unidos este es el término.
Discussion
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