cock up

基本解释

Cock up– This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
这个短语既可用作动词也可用作名词，它的意思是犯了很严重的错误（动词）或错误（名词）。（这个表达跟男性器官毫无关系。））
Cock Up – This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
这个俚语既可用作动词也可用作名词，它的意思是犯了很严重的错误或犯错误。（这个表达跟男性器官毫无关系。）
That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-coast on to land-locked Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic) in The Winter’s Tale.
因为从他的剧本可以看出，他的地理知识实在是一团糟：在《冬天的故事》里会给地处内陆的波西米亚（现在的一部分属于捷克）安一个海岸线。

The Tories allege that cost-saving imposed by senior officials lay behind the cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown
Yet far from being an imperialist conspiracy, as American officials tell it the base agreement was a bureaucratic cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Hoist on the petard of a dissuasive defence agreement
There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.
FORBES: Amazon Eyes Secondhand Ebook Market