bad call
Referee's costly mistake
A bad call is a decision or judgment that turns out to be wrong or ill-advised.
The phrase comes from sports officiating, where a referee's bad call is a mistaken ruling: The umpire's bad call cost them the game.
It extends to any poor decision: Trusting him with the money was a bad call.
The opposite is a good call.
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- errorFault in communication
- refereeSports rule enforcer
- umpireSports match official
judgment · foul · penalty · wrong · questionable · controversial · home cooking · replay · challenge · whistle · blown · regret · misjudgment · robbed blind · overturned · ruling · decision · unfair
- misjudgmentsmisjudgment, mistake, error, blunder, miscalculation
- errorserror, mistake, blunder, blunders, fault
- Mistakes & Liesmistakes, lies, errors, error, mistake
- research errorsmeasurement error, sampling error, systematic error, selection bias, confirmation bias
- foolishnessfoolishness, silliness, foolish, stupid, folly
- mistakesmistake, mistakes, slip, error, errors
strategic soundness
bad callgood call
Apt judgment
masterstroke · winning move · tactical genius · stroke of genius · perfect timing
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