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A list of phrases related to the word "mistake"...
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A bit of a porridge
A
slip
of a thing
A
slip
of the pen
Accident
prone
Accident
waiting to happen
Acknowledge the corn
An
accident
waiting to happen
Balls up
Blot your copybook
Brain fart
Career limiting move
Chapter of accidents
Cock up
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Commentator's curse
Cry havoc and let
slip
the dogs of war
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Dig your own grave
Doing a Ratner
Drop a brick
Drop a clanger
False alarm
First
Slip
( field position in the game of cricket )
Fool's gold ( a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold )
Foot in mouth
Freudian
slip
Frock horror
Generous to a
fault
Get your fingers burnt
Give someone the
slip
Give the
slip
Glaring mistake
Go wrong
Happy
accident
Honest mistake
How wrong can you be?
Human
error
If you don't make
mistakes
you don't make anything
If you think that you have another think coming
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It's not what you think
Jump to the wrong conclusion
Leg
Slip
( field position in the game of cricket )
Let it
slip
through your fingers
Let something
slip
Make no mistake
Mistakes
have been made
My bad
Nip
slip
( the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple )
Pull a boner
Put a foot wrong
Put your foot in it
Put your foot in your mouth
Score an own goal
Screwed up
Second
slip
( field position in the game of cricket )
Shoot yourself in the foot
Slip
and slide
Slip
of the tongue
Slip
on a banana skin
Slip
the collar
Slip
up
Slip, Slidin' Away ( Paul Simon song )
Slip, sliding away
The Man Who
Mistook
His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales ( Oliver Sacks book )
The Mistake On The Lake ( Nickname of Cleveland Ohio )
There's many a
slip
twixt cup and lip
These things happen
Third
Slip
( field position in the game of cricket )
Trial and
error
Way off beam
Way off the mark
Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )