take a pratfall

Perhaps because I had found a new way to force someone to take a pratfall.

Another way of looking at them is that they are both stories about people in the public eye taking a pratfall.

He looked like a comic who's just taken a pratfall in a movie.

He is just the kind of clever-clever type that people long to see taking a pratfall.

She can sing prettily and, when required, take a pratfall.

Ever seen a chorus girl take a pratfall in a crinoline?

Jeff took a pratfall onto the floor and howled in mock pain.

Moss hoped he would take a pratfall in the mud, but no such luck.

We have collectively taken a pratfall on a moral whoopee cushion.

Calvin almost made him slip and take a pratfall, just to pierce that dignity.

In ninety seconds, a historical relationship is exposed and sexism takes a pratfall.

I mean, can you imagine Khan Singh taking a pratfall?

He takes a pratfall in the attempt.

She relies on an ancient concept: a glamorous woman taking a pratfall is inherently funny.

Dancing in her underwear, Ms. Curtis takes a pratfall.

Select an animal, tree or chimney, and it may dance, sing or take a pratfall.

I think he wants to see Cory take a pratfall and lay there in the mud with her skirt up around her hips.

The mourners headed up--Ellis Loew slipped, took a pratfall.

The call negated the run, and then Schembechler, after hurling a play sheet, almost took a pratfall, losing his balance and nearly tripping over a cable.

To improve visibility, the three rear-seat headrests flop down, at the touch of a dashboard button, like a trio of vaudevillians taking a pratfall.

Sort of like an oriental martial art; you yield, roll with the blow so that your attacker takes a pratfall with the force of the aggression.

Even his grin failed to make him look like a madman; it was more the broad and affable smile of someone who had just seen a clown take a pratfall.

One of the computer's adjuncts tripped on the door sill as it entered the room, crashed flat on its face like a comedian taking a pratfall in some abominable old movie.

All the “Gilmore Girls” comparisons are probably unfair, but if you’ve wanted Serena and the “Gossip” gang to lighten up and take a pratfall or two, seek out “Privileged.”

When Carnelle trips down the contest's runway in a disintegrating red dress that belonged to her late aunt, she looks like a refugee from a Tennessee Williams play taking a pratfall.