put one's foot in it

Make a blunder, as in I didn't know it was a surprise party; I guess I put my foot in it. This expression presumably alludes to setting one's foot down in mud or excrement. [Late 1700s] Also see foot in one's mouth.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yaroslava	yah-rah-SLAH-vah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic
Cobus	KO-bus	Dutch
Daffodil	DAF-ə-dil	English (Rare)
Timotheus	-	Biblical Latin, German, Dutch
Almir (1)	-	Portuguese (Brazilian)
Henry	['henri:]