What is Schoolboy Error?
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Definition of Schoolboy error...
"getting the basics wrong" ... especially when you should know the answer
Expecting to be able to buy tickets "on-the-door" when U2 are coming to play in the Village Hall that night... to discover that all 250 were sold out months ago...
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For a person of experience to make an error in a situation where she should know better.
Often used by soccer fans in the UK when describing a naive or careless error by a professional player.
"Blimey... that's a bad mistake by Beckham. A real schoolboy error!"
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The most basic of errors. An error so simple, and avoidable, that anyone with an ounce of credibility or experience in that field should not be commiting it. A mistake that should only be made by school boys still in training for that particular task. Especially used when referring to playing games of pool in pubs, or occasionally during snooker. Schoolboy error can be heard ringing out by jeering onlookers if for instance a participant missed a sitter = he should have potted it as it as so simple, that thereforehe is reduced to the level of a lowly school boy playing his dad for the first time.
And here comes Keane for the winner....Oooooooh and he's missed, and left the black right over the pocket for Swann to tap in...
Schoolboy error!
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Offering one's hand to other person to shake, only to retract and to laugh in their face, whilst repeating said words. Pioneered by Soccer AM.
"Aha! Schoolboy Error! Sit Down! Shut up! And tidy your room!"
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