What's the difference between clanger and pratfall?

Clanger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.
  • (2) The comments stunned green Tories, with energy and climate change ministers shifting from talk of "world leadership" in the morning to "realism" in the afternoon, and party activists saying Osborne had dropped a clanger.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Clangers come on at the end of the CBeebies day, narrated by the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin.
  • (4) It’s better to get out before you reach your sell-by date.” Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers Read more When was the right time?
  • (5) Here was the dullest of games with the liveliest of endings, thanks to clangers from each goalkeeper in the last 10 minutes of the match.
  • (6) When asked last month for her thoughts on another Clinton clanger – claiming that she and her husband, former president Bill, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2000 – Warren reportedly “paused for a full 19 seconds” before saying: “Um, I was surprised.” Asked whether Clinton could plausibly speak on behalf of America’s poorest in a political fight against inequality, Sagrans said: “Obviously Hillary has been out and promoting her book, and promoting her, and doing a lot of these speeches.
  • (7) The 70s are sometimes referred to as the decade that style forgot, and some of the cliched clangers are present and correct in the final season on Sky Atlantic .
  • (8) Decision to "go early" may have been on legal advice but more and more looks like a clanger.
  • (9) The Duke of Edinburgh has shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken comments and clangers.
  • (10) Louis van Gaal dropped a clanger after Manchester United’s win over CSKA Moscow by getting Chris Smalling’s name wrong … again.
  • (11) ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
  • (12) Of course, MacMath couldn’t have timed Sunday’s clanger any worse, coming just hours after the official announcement of Howard’s signing.
  • (13) The pace slows, there are fewer multicoloured dinosaurs, and instead, you have the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin narrating Clangers – about a family of pink, mouse-like creatures who live underground on another planet – followed by the unchanged, vital staple of In the Night Garden.
  • (14) a) Let sleeping Dallas lie b) I can’t wait for the new Clangers c) I pine for Bagpuss d) I miss gathering round the wireless Results Mostly a) Chill out, Flash Gordon.
  • (15) It was Ospina, though, who dropped the most nightmarish of clangers and it shone a harsh light on Wenger’s decision to persist with him in this competition at the expense of Cech.
  • (16) Whatever, he says, he made one of the great clangers in history.
  • (17) US writer Helen Boyd , author of My Husband Betty, lists 35 classic clangers, including: trans woman putting on makeup (two shots for reverse camera shot into mirror); showing "before" photos; any reference to genital surgery that includes "finally becoming a woman"; and anything with a trans woman sitting in an above-the-knee skirt, "posed so you can see what great gams she has".
  • (18) Despite Brown dropping a clanger in 2007 by abolishing the 10p tax rate, followed by the 2008 financial tsunami that hit our shores due to the earthquake of US sub-prime debt, it was Brown and Obama who engineered the fiscal stimulus.
  • (19) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
  • (20) And there’s the huge spanner that the euro crisis has thrown into the Scottish works – an even bigger clanger come 2017 if you think of Scotland pushing hard to join the EU just as England votes to leave.

Pratfall


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Consultation-Liaison Services continue to develop and expand in general hospitals, psychiatrists must be aware of pitfalls and pratfalls inherent in dealing with medical colleagues and other allied health professionals, as well as with the patients.
  • (2) Facebook put together a steely management team that has stood it in good stead as it fought back from its IPO pratfall.
  • (3) Revolutions, upheavals, corruption, schoolboy economic pratfalls, the Italian prime minister using his own personal Caesar in distinctly un-prime-ministerial ways: some scientists have even claimed there has been more news in 2011 alone than there was in the entire first millennium AD.
  • (4) This is especially the case for Don who has already turned Pete Campbell into a ball of pratfalling fury and insulted his ally Joan.
  • (5) Gerwig may baulk at the comparison, but Baumbach tells me that the character of Frances Ha – footloose free spirit; pratfalling dancer – was directly informed by her.
  • (6) The 50 Shades adaptation seems to be conscious of this trait with its casting of Jamie Dornan, whose quiet portrayal of a bloodthirsty therapist in The Fall means there's hope for the story yet – provided he's allowed to bring notes, and avoid the genre's other pratfall, namely rigidity, as so ably demonstrated in Mark Wahlberg's 1993 school slasher The Substitute.
  • (7) Adam and Paul was a grungy comic odyssey about 24 hours in the lives of two homeless Dublin smackheads: it was Ulysses meets Waiting for Godot with Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.
  • (8) But he brushed aside all criticism with the rejoinder that the British press was the last institution that could criticise television - even for screening staged pratfalls and other disasters for his You've Been Framed (1990-97) programmes.
  • (9) Markets are always great (which is why one of their fundamental operating principle is “the greater fool theory”) but they make up for any minor negativity with light material, like systemic pratfalls.
  • (10) SH The Golden Banana Skin award for best pratfall Winner: Alejandro Sabella’s touchline tumble Facebook Twitter Pinterest This would have gone to England physio Gary Lewin, for tripping up on a water bottle during a goal celebration, except his fall looked excruciatingly painful.
  • (11) Despite the eventual pratfalls, there were long spells here when they were a far more substantial side than Monaco.