0 something that you say by accident that embarrasses or upsets someone: --
If it does dib in, it could drop a clanger because little of the coal industry will remain intact.
However, if clangers, or one clanger, are grounds for changing an entire system or dismantling an organisation, we would have no government departments left.
We say, on the other hand, that there is just as much clanger in reaction as in enthusiasm?
I maintain that one of the worst systems is that of piecework in the clanger zone in the factories.
They did drop one or two clangers, but we shall forgive them those for the positive things that they said.
We have all dropped that sort of clanger in our day and survived it.
If so, was it a clanger or a ploy?
In my view, the decision was unacceptable, and it was a clanger.
