clanger
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Meaning
a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
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he dropped a clanger
Small Clanger retrieves him with a fishing rod and a magnet.
Narrator of the 2015 series, Michael Palin has said that Major Clanger is one of his favourite characters.
Small Clanger is very inquisitive and inventive which despite his best intentions has sometimes led to some element of chaos amongst the Clangers, the soup pump being a classic example.
Upon landing, the Clangers observe his movements and discover that he is digging up rocks, Small Clanger peeks out of a hole and takes the wicker basket he is (rather humorously) placing the collected rocks into.
The astronaut turns to find his basket gone and begins to look for it, he searches the surface until he lifts the lid of one of the holes only to find Tiny Clanger within.