screw up

Taverner is icy “so when she does screw up, something slips out, it’s a sort of embarrassment — using the words of common people.”

"It's the classic 'money screws up relationships' sort of situation," Ms Whitenack said.

“When I was bringing new clients on board, half of my mind would be saying, ‘we're going to screw up’, and it would dampen my enthusiasm.”

“The vice president can’t say, ‘The president was about to screw up and I told him don’t do that and the sun came out the next day.’”

“It’s analog, there’s no sampling, there’s no click tracks. As Billy says quite often, when they screw up — it’s an authentic rock ’n’ roll screw-up.