Flab vs Flub - What's the difference?
flab | flub |
An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
* 1962 November 6, , “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”'', 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), ''Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents ,
* 1997 , Garry Marshall, Lori Marshall, Wake Me When It?s Funny: How to Break into Show Business and Stay ,
* 2002 , John Sheirer, Shut Up and Speak!: Essential Guidelines for Public Speaking in School, Work, and Life ,
To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
* 2003 , Trevor Pearson, Living Strictly fore! Pleasure ,
* 2008 , D. L. White, Acting For Film And Television ,
* 2011 , Ric Meyers, Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book ,
As nouns the difference between flab and flub
is that flab is soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat while flub is an error; a mistake in the performance of an action.As a verb flub is
to goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.flub
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Noun
(en noun)page 111,
- I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub'—one of the few that I make, not because I?m so good on television but because I?ve been doing it a long time. I made a ' flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.
page 280,
- A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.
page 56,
- The pressure public speaking puts on a person will occasionally cause these little flubs , so don?t panic when they happen to you.
- The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.
Verb
(flubb)pages 88-89,
- ‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ?bout? You?re mad as a snake!’
- ‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’
- ‘What was your line?’
- ‘I told you I flubbed it!’ he mouthed these words hysterically.
page 37,
- The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed' it. And then '''flubbed '''it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew that he ‘knew his lines’ and then ' flubbed them again.
page 129,
- But even after the film ended, Jackie left his audience happy by including outtakes during the end credits — but not outtakes of flubbed' lines (as in ''Cannonball Run'') ... outtakes of ' flubbed stunts (including some painful shots of the bar room brawl and clock-tower fall that go horribly wrong)!