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The art of making a mistake look like it was at least trying.
means To spoil or bungle something through clumsiness or carelessness, usually while making a visible mess of the attempt.
from Traces back to Middle English 'bocchen,' meaning to patch or mend — so a botch was originally just a repair job. The sense drifted from 'fix clumsily' to 'fix badly' to simply 'ruin,' as clumsy patches so often made things worse than they started. The old sense survives faintly in 'botch-work,' meaning rough, slapdash repair.
- origin
- from middle english for to patch clumsily
- not a sin
- botching implies effort, unlike simply failing
- best friend
- duct tape, denial, and quiet confidence
- escalation
- one botch invites three more fixing it