diff --git a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/diagnostics.rs b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/diagnostics.rs
index 0ce6a570d258d..79bfa35de623c 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/diagnostics.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/diagnostics.rs
@@ -1666,14 +1666,8 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
             self.recover_await_prefix(await_sp)?
         };
         let sp = self.error_on_incorrect_await(lo, hi, &expr, is_question);
-        let kind = match expr.kind {
-            // Avoid knock-down errors as we don't know whether to interpret this as `foo().await?`
-            // or `foo()?.await` (the very reason we went with postfix syntax 😅).
-            ExprKind::Try(_) => ExprKind::Err,
-            _ => ExprKind::Await(expr, await_sp),
-        };
-        let expr = self.mk_expr(lo.to(sp), kind);
-        self.maybe_recover_from_bad_qpath(expr)
+
+        Ok(self.mk_expr(sp, ExprKind::Err))
     }
 
     fn recover_await_macro(&mut self) -> PResult<'a, (Span, P<Expr>, bool)> {
diff --git a/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.rs b/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7517c4ff547de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+fn main() {
+    await{}()
+    //~^   ERROR: cannot find struct, variant or union type `await` in this scope
+}
diff --git a/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.stderr b/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.stderr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ab840acb063cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ui/parser/bad-await-body.stderr
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+error[E0422]: cannot find struct, variant or union type `await` in this scope
+  --> $DIR/bad-await-body.rs:2:5
+   |
+LL |     await{}()
+   |     ^^^^^ not found in this scope
+
+error: aborting due to previous error
+
+For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0422`.