"meter la pata" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meto la pata",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metí la pata",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metido la pata",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meter la pata (first-person singular present meto la pata, first-person singular preterite metí la pata, past participle metido la pata)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "metedura de pata"
        },
        {
          "word": "metepatas"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I didn't want to screw up, but I ended up forgetting about his birthday.",
          "text": "No quería meter la pata, pero terminé olvidándome de su cumpleaños."
        },
        {
          "english": "I messed up in the meeting by saying something inappropriate and everyone went silent.",
          "text": "Metí la pata en la reunion al decir algo inapropiado y todos se quedaron en silencio."
        },
        {
          "english": "He always makes mistakes when he tries to make jokes; nobody understands them.",
          "text": "Siempre mete la pata cuando intenta hacer bromas; nadie las entiende."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to mess up; slip up; screw up, to put one's foot in one's mouth"
      ],
      "id": "en-meter_la_pata-es-verb-ntJx19eJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "mess up",
          "mess up"
        ],
        [
          "slip up",
          "slip up"
        ],
        [
          "screw up",
          "screw up"
        ],
        [
          "put one's foot in one's mouth",
          "put one's foot in one's mouth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, colloquial) to mess up; slip up; screw up, to put one's foot in one's mouth"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "equivocarse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meter la pata"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "metedura de pata"
    },
    {
      "word": "metepatas"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meto la pata",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metí la pata",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metido la pata",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meter la pata (first-person singular present meto la pata, first-person singular preterite metí la pata, past participle metido la pata)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Spanish colloquialisms",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish terms with usage examples",
        "Spanish verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I didn't want to screw up, but I ended up forgetting about his birthday.",
          "text": "No quería meter la pata, pero terminé olvidándome de su cumpleaños."
        },
        {
          "english": "I messed up in the meeting by saying something inappropriate and everyone went silent.",
          "text": "Metí la pata en la reunion al decir algo inapropiado y todos se quedaron en silencio."
        },
        {
          "english": "He always makes mistakes when he tries to make jokes; nobody understands them.",
          "text": "Siempre mete la pata cuando intenta hacer bromas; nadie las entiende."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to mess up; slip up; screw up, to put one's foot in one's mouth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mess up",
          "mess up"
        ],
        [
          "slip up",
          "slip up"
        ],
        [
          "screw up",
          "screw up"
        ],
        [
          "put one's foot in one's mouth",
          "put one's foot in one's mouth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, colloquial) to mess up; slip up; screw up, to put one's foot in one's mouth"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "equivocarse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meter la pata"
}