"drop a clanger" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drops a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropping a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drops a clanger",
        "2": "dropping a clanger",
        "3": "dropped a clanger"
      },
      "expansion": "drop a clanger (third-person singular simple present drops a clanger, present participle dropping a clanger, simple past and past participle dropped a clanger)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I dropped a clanger when I mentioned how well Mary's mother had been looking recently. I didn't know that she died two days ago."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time."
      ],
      "id": "en-drop_a_clanger-en-verb-r-9CN7S4",
      "links": [
        [
          "blunder",
          "blunder"
        ],
        [
          "gaffe",
          "gaffe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop a clanger"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drops a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropping a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped a clanger",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drops a clanger",
        "2": "dropping a clanger",
        "3": "dropped a clanger"
      },
      "expansion": "drop a clanger (third-person singular simple present drops a clanger, present participle dropping a clanger, simple past and past participle dropped a clanger)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I dropped a clanger when I mentioned how well Mary's mother had been looking recently. I didn't know that she died two days ago."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blunder",
          "blunder"
        ],
        [
          "gaffe",
          "gaffe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop a clanger"
}