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false step
noun
- a stumble.
- an unwise or blundering act.
false step
noun
- an unwise action
- a stumble; slip
Idioms and Phrases
A stumble or blunder, as in Making a down payment without securing a mortgage was clearly a false step . This term transfers physical stumbling or tripping to other enterprises. [c. 1700]Example Sentences
Especially at a time like this when the cultural reflex is to vilify every false step.
In fact, in many ways the themes raised were sand traps waiting for a false step.
He was black and he has always known that one false step and he was down and out.
I repented directly the false step was taken, but, like a true Briton, I was too proud to go back.
Their genius travels over as many lines as there are lineaments in the figure, and the least false step would deform it.
Every time I made a false step, I had to devise some new “miracle” by way of counterblast.
And both he and Godfrey knew that one false step meant a death almost too horrible for words.
One false step, one blunder, would be fatal, and we have known the other members of the party to make these blunders.
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