To the owner, this was worse than not doing it at all! And a real embarrassment to any company that came. So a servant was called clumsy or inept by their employer. Today the term means anyone (floors or not) who irritates others by a clumsy word or action.
In the evening Mozart took a turn for the worse, and his doctor, Thomas Closset, was summoned from the theater but sent word that he would come once the show was over. When he arrived, he ordered cold compresses applied to Mozartâs head, which witnesses said caused the patient to shudder.
George Washington suffered from dental problems throughout his life. He lost his first tooth at age 22, and by the time he was inaugurated in 1789 he had only one natural tooth remaining. He eventually lost all of his teeth and owned many pairs of dentures in his lifetime.