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
LŐRinc	LUU-reents	Hungarian
Kuno	KOO-no (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Epiphany	i-PIF-ə-nee	English (Rare)
Gjurd	-	Norwegian (Rare)
Maritza	-	Spanish (Latin American)
Grozda	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian