botches up
Makes a mess
To botch up is to ruin something through incompetence or carelessness—a failed repair, a bungled presentation, a plan gone wrong: He botched up the paint job so badly we had to redo it.
The phrase adds emphasis to botch, which means the same thing.
Someone who habitually botches things up may be called a botcher.
- misstepsMistakes or errors
- flubsBotches through carelessness
- bunglesMishandles through clumsiness
- blundersSerious mistakes from carelessness
- messes upErrs in execution
mishandles · slip-ups · screws up · fouls up · oversights · miscalculations · snafus · goes pear-shaped · mangles · errors · drops the ball · throws a wrench in · gaffes · makes a hash of · carelessness · incompetence · haste · overconfidence