0 something that you say by accident that embarrasses or upsets someone:
I think, however, that he clanged his clangers with even more aplomb than usual.
The truth of the matter is that the mix of the chairman and the director general was unfortunate and led to the clanger.
In my view, the decision was unacceptable, and it was a clanger.
If so, was it a clanger or a ploy?
We have all dropped that sort of clanger in our day and survived it.
They did drop one or two clangers, but we shall forgive them those for the positive things that they said.
I maintain that one of the worst systems is that of piecework in the clanger zone in the factories.
We say, on the other hand, that there is just as much clanger in reaction as in enthusiasm?