comedy of errors | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)A set ofamusingorfarcicalevents involving aseriesofawkwardmisstepsor othermistakes.1884,Grant Allen, chapter 37, inPhilistia:"[I]t's the poor Le Bretons who have brought us two thus together. And yet, they were both once our dearest rivals.Youwere in love with Edie Le Breton:Iwas half in love with Ernest Le Breton: and now—why, now, Arthur, Idobelieve we're both utterly in love with one another. What a curious littlecomedy of errors!"1914,Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 13, inLeft End Edwards:[T]hose who had remained so long began to view the game as what it really was, acomedy of errors, and got lots of fun out of it.1951March, M. D. Greville, “The Nomenclature of Railway Stations”, inRailway Magazine, page192:Reference to Flamborough brings to mind an amusingcomedy of errors, which although not strictly a matter of station-naming, at least concerns station names. The actual name was Marton for Flamborough, and, by some error, it appeared inBradshaw, at the end of 1858, as MartonfromFlamborough. After two or three months, this was evidently noticed, and instructions given to correct it, but unfortunately the correction appeared as MartonorFlamborough, which remained undetected for several months more.1965June 3, Eliot Fremont-Smith, "A Way Back to Life" (book review ofAugust is a Wicked MonthbyEdna O'Brien),New York Times(retrieved 28 July 2013):What follows is a painfulcomedy of errors. Almost from her arrival she is pursued by a bellhop who interprets her every rebuff as a coy invitation.2005Feb. 11, "Bride and Prejudice" (film review),boxofficeprophets.com(retrieved 28 July 2013):Though Lalita and Darcy's budding romance nearly falls prey to assumptions, back-biting gossip, and various coincidences andcomedies of errors, pride and prejudice are both overcome so that love may conquer all in the end.2018September 26, Drachinifel, 6:12 from the start, inThe Battle of Lissa - Special‎[1], archived fromthe originalon9 August 2023:Initially, despite thiscomedy of errorsby the Italian command structure, the battle seemed to be going badly for the Austrians.2021May 28, Sam Jones, Uki Goñi, “Bard timing: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:In what can only be described as acomedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, “one of the most important writers in the English language” had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine.

Examples:

EN: Oh come, Branwell. Don't try and make a tragedy of your little comedy of errors.
ES: ¡Vamos, no intente convertir en tragedia lo que es sólo una comedia de equívocos!
EN: Can we put an end to this comedy of errors in my house?
ES: ¿Es para hoy? ¿Falta mucho para que termine esta comedia?
EN: If there's one thing I hate, it's a comedy of errors!
ES: ¡Detesto los malentendidos en las comedias ligeras!
EN: It was a comedy of errors.
ES: Era una comedia de errores.
EN: It's a comedy of errors...
ES: Es una comedia de errores
EN: And then second, the comedy of errors.
ES: Y luego, más tarde, la comedia de los errores.
EN: Betcha that looked like a comedy of errors on the tube.
ES: Apuesto que parecía una comedia de errores en el tubo.
EN: Yeah, it was a comedy of errors, I'm afraid.
ES: Sí, fue una comedia de errores, me temo.
EN: Just say this is, uh, a sort of comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it. And, uh...
ES: Dile sólo que es... una especie de... comedia de errores extraños, sin profundizar.
EN: A comedy of errors that's gonna put the sisters Potter in the poorhouse.
ES: Para lograr una comedia de errores que quizás deje a las Potter en la calle.
EN: The irony of why he got selected for prosecution, you could almost say a comedy of errors, his commanding officer decided that he must have been the target because he was planning to send Billy home.
ES: La ironía de por qué le eligieron a él para acusarle, se podría decir que casi fue una comedia de disparates, su oficial al mando decidió que él debía ser el objetivo porque él mismo tenía planeado enviar a Billy a casa.
EN: I hear business in Tehran is a comedy of errors?
ES: Dicen que hacer negocios en Teherán es como la comedia de los errores.
EN: Although a comedy of errors, trial is no joke. On October 30 of 1969,
ES: El 30 de octubre de 1969, Morrison es declarado culpable de blasfemia y exhibición indecente.
EN: It's a comedy of errors, sir. Roger that.
ES: - es una comedia de malentendidos,señor.
EN: Now number three, this comedy of errors ended with Tim bribing the poor mourning woman out of a couch.
ES: Ahora número tres todo este sainete terminó con Tim haciendo que la pobre mujer de duelo lo sobornara con un sofá.

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