pobody's nerfect
- idiom
- Informal
- I messed up the presentation, but pobody's nerfect.
Examples
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After misspelling a word in her speech, she joked, 'Pobody's nerfect!'.
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Don't worry about the mistake; pobody's nerfect!
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He shrugged off the criticism with a grin, saying, 'Pobody's nerfect.'
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Whenever someone admits a mistake, I like to remind them that pobody's nerfect.
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After misspelling a word in her speech, she joked, 'Pobody's nerfect!'
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He shrugged off the criticism with a grin, saying, 'Pobody's nerfect.'
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Whenever someone admits a mistake, I like to remind them that pobody's nerfect.
Synonyms
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8.3
To show mild embarrassment after you make a small mistake
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
pobody's + nerfect
This is a deliberate phonetic/spelling play on the known phrase 'nobody's perfect' (a humorous spoonerism-like alteration). Because the surface constituents 'pobody's' and 'nerfect' are nonwords and their meanings are not recoverable from their form, a learner cannot derive the intended meaning from the parts without prior familiarity with the original phrase, so it is opaque.
Etymology
Pobody's nerfect is a playful, joking, funny spelling of 'nobody's perfect', where pobody's stands for nobody's and nerfect stands for perfect. The joke is that the words are themselves 'imperfect', so the phrase gives a clear, funny picture that helps people accept small errors. That's why people say pobody's nerfect to mean 'it's okay to make a mistake'.