I understood it may have come from the engineer Thomas Bouch who built the original railway bridge over the River Tay, Dundee in the 1890s. He did not do such a great job as some short while later on a windy rainy night the bridge collapsed and the train crossing it at the time plunged passengers to a watery grave.
to botch up or mishandle means to make a mess of (usually) a practical task. Another colloquial expression that means the same is to make a dog's dinner of something.Bungle.
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Late Middle English (in the sense 'repair' but originally not implying clumsiness): 1382, bocchen "to repair," from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin bottia boss, later 1530: "to spoil by unskillful work"
The origin of the expression is obscure. It means "ruined everything".
It came from the movie Poltergiest.
"Try not to botch this job like you did before"
Botch is a verb. "Don't botch the construction job by using low grade materials." "Don't botch your test by not studying." Often used past tense: "You botched the relationship with our client by hitting on his wife!"
There is no show with botch in it, but there are wrestling moves And a band and a movie called botch
Blot + Botch = Blotch
Botch - band - ended in 2002.
Botch - band - was created in 1993.
to botch up or mishandle means to make a mess of (usually) a practical task. Another colloquial expression that means the same is to make a dog's dinner of something.Bungle.
To "botch" something is to cause it ruin or harm. An example of a sentence using the word would be: Sam was afraid he would botch the whole sculpture with one wrong move.
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Botch-a-Me - Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina - was created in 1941.
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Botch boy