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screws the pooch
vb. (en-third-person singularscrew the pooch)
Usage examples of "screws the pooch".
Who always gets handed the dirty end of the stick when some League neobarb gets a wild hair up his ass, or some bureaucratic puke from Out-Worlds screws the pooch?
Put him in a swimming bath for two minutes, and he screws the pooch.