fluff lines

fluff one's lines

and blow one's lines; muff one's lines

to speak one's speech badly or forget one's lines when one is in a play. The actress fluffed her lines badly in the last act. I was in a play once, and I muffed my lines over and over. It's okay to blow your lines in rehearsal.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Csaba	CHAW-baw	Hungarian
Fred	FRED (English, French, Portuguese), FRET (Dutch, German)	English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese
Augusta	ow-GUWS-tah (German, Polish), ow-GOOS-tah (Italian), ə-GUS-tə (English)	German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Sidonia	-	Late Roman, German
MÉLisande	-	French
Branimir	-	Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovene