foul up
phrasal verbfoul up
- (informal) to make a lot of mistakes; to do something badly
- I've fouled up badly again, haven't I?
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foul something up
- (informal) to cause something to fail, especially by doing something wrong
- Everything was going really well until Rob came along and fouled things up.