a banana skin

An action that results in an unforeseen and embarrassing mistake or problem. When Joe applied the latest software update, he had no idea what a banana skin it would be until after his company's entire network crashed.

a banana skin

(British)

something which causes or is very likely to cause embarrassing problems The new tax has proved to be a banana skin for the government.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shadiya	-	Arabic
Behrouz	-	Persian
Birger	BIR-yer (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Klein	[kləin]
Odila	-	Ancient Germanic
Laurence (2)	lo-RAWNS	French