fumble the bag
Squander sure thing
To fumble the bag is to squander an opportunity, especially one involving money or success.
From football's fumbled ball and hip-hop's bag (a sum of money), the phrase suggests dropping something valuable when it was already in your hands: He had the promotion locked up but fumbled the bag by missing the presentation.
Often shortened to fumbled.
- chanceLikelihood of occurrence
- golden opportunityExceptionally favorable circumstance
- big breakCareer-making opportunity
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
prospect · fortune · mismanagement · blow it · drop the ball · opening · miscalculation · error · occasion · mishap · choke · throw it away · oversight · possibility · squander · botch · miss out · slip-up
fumble the bagseize the moment
Act on present opportunity
strike while the iron is hot · cash in · make hay while the sun shines · nail it · seize the day
fumble the bagclutch
Mechanism linking engine to gearbox
deliver · rise to the occasion · nail it · execute · step up
fumble the bagcash out
Convert assets to money
make bank · come up · hit the jackpot · rake it in · bank on it
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