bugger up

phrasal verb

buggered up; buggering up; buggers up

British, informal + impolite

: to make mistakes in doing or making (something)

The waiter buggered up our order.

I don't want that job. I'd surely bugger it up

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The whole thing with Brexit later over here was really a right-wing ploy to keep people in their places, and this really buggered up musicians in Europe. —