Instead, she fouled out by trying to defend Obama and downplay the deportation crisis.
The AHA stepped up to the plate, but instead of an out-of-the-ballpark home run, it fouled out.
He once fouled Barack on the Harvard Law School basketball courts, but voted for him in 2008.
Americans long for a straight-talking businessman who can save the country from the political class that fouled everything up.
It was the dead man's sacret too, and she's fouled the ould man's memory.
He let two wide ones pass, and fouled when a bender cut a corner.
Certainly, five men at least were living before we fouled the ice.
Or if the ice on which she floated, fouled some other berg it might cost us all our spars.
Something had fouled her, and she had failed, for Corinne swept by at that moment.
I have fouled this pretty one so that my senses might abandon her.
Old English ful "rotten, unclean, vile, corrupt, offensive to the senses," from Proto-Germanic *fulaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian ful, Middle Dutch voul, Dutch vuil, Old High German fül, German faul, Gothic füls), from root *fu-, corresponding to PIE *pu-, perhaps from the sound made in reaction to smelling something bad (cf. Sanskrit puyati "rots, stinks," putih "foul, rotten;" Greek puon "discharge from a sore;" Latin pus "putrid matter," putere "to stink," putridus "rotten;" Lithuanian puviu "to rot").
Old English ful occasionally meant "ugly" (as contrasted with fæger (adj.), modern fair (adj.)), a sense frequently found in Middle English, and the cognate in Swedish is the usual word for "ugly." Of weather, first recorded late 14c. In the sporting sense of "irregular, unfair" it is first attested 1797, though foul play is recorded from mid-15c. Baseball sense of "out of play" attested by 1860. Foulmart was a Middle English word for "polecat" (from Old English mearð "marten").
Old English fulian "to become foul, rot," from ful (see foul (adj.)). Related: Fouled; fouling.
