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Discover LudwigThe word "pratfall" is correct in written English
It is used to describe a fall or a blunder that is often humorous or embarrassing. Example: "His pratfall during the presentation made everyone laugh, lightening the mood." Alternatives include "blunder" or "faux pas."
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Even distant ones afford a degree of credibility and trust, which pose the biggest hurdle for any peer-to-peer operation, Mr Blecharczyk explains.So far Airbnb has taken one pratfall.
This was not its first pratfall.
He made himself even more popular amongst the red-rose cognoscenti by criticising those of his fellow players who, keen to pin the blame for England's global pratfall on anyone and everyone but themselves, failed to keep their mouths shut in the aftermath.
The biggest pratfall, of course, came in Munich in 1974 when the great West German team of Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller were run ragged by an exultant Cruyff before the Dutch decided that victory was not enough – they also had to humiliate their bitter foes.
If there had been any doubt about the intensity of Arsenal's need to wipe away the memory of that shocking League Cup pratfall in Bradford, or deal with the growing possibility that they faced still another year without any kind of triumph, they were consumed by the force of Arsenal's response.
One of the horns responded with a sliding parp, as if to signal a pratfall in a silent movie.
The lack of femme fatality may be ascribed to her uncommon self-possession: the stubborn vertical bracing of that pratfall also kept her from assuming the conventionally vulnerable (or predatory) female sexual postures.
In 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,' her entrance" — Glenne Headly's — "is a pratfall".
Though Keaton adorns the comedy with the occasional pratfall (including an aquatic encounter with a sitting duck and an unfortunate tangle with ringside ropes), he aims less at laughter than at atmosphere.
Ah that's a good one!" The pratfall, in Beckett's comedy, is both physical and philosophical.
A joke, particularly a pratfall, is self-contained, whereas a sad or anxious moment is hard to convey briefly and out of context.
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