Sentence examples for make an arse of from inspiring English sources

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We've said how good we are before yet we go into games and make an arse of it.

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Fiennes admits: "I like making an arse of myself on the dancefloor".

People like Johnson precisely because he makes an arse of himself, and he plays to their expectations.

"They are not slow to tell me if they think I'm making an arse of myself," he says.

Controversialist TV personality Geraldo Rivera made an arse of himself in Afghanistan in 2001, while "reporting" for Fox.

Tragically, Strobelight turned out just to be Reznor's way of mocking Chris Cornell for making an arse of himself on the Timbaland-produced Scream.

Urban Dictionary defines the term as a mild insult directed at "one who is foolish, one who has made an arse of themselves, one who is rather daft".

While much of the book is thoughtful and serious, however, Scruton suffers, in common with many academics, an inability to hear when he's making an arse of himself.

"Derek Draper's making an arse of himself!" "Derek used to describe himself as the spin doctor's spin doctor," Kate intervenes, after one of his recklessly self-mocking anecdotes.

It goes on relentlessly, for hours and hours, but I try to get to them all because to see the same moronic question asked over and over again by people (who don't even think just to check Google to make sure they're not making an arse of themselves) is very funny, and shows exactly why an International Women's Day is necessary.

Now, after I'd made an arse of dodging Quelaag's vomits of lava, or failed to out roll Moonlight Butterfly's piercing lightning beams, or completely bailed on any kind of strategy against the aforementioned formidable tag team of Ornstein and Smough, I respawned at a bonfire.

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