Mess up
Mess up verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.
Spill
Spill verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Both terms in one sentence
- After some trash talk to the competition and lecturing Reggie about how she'd better not mess up, Otto takes a nasty spill himself.
Source: Not So Above It All
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