Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) A hindrance, obstacle or impediment. n. (context idiomatic English) A hindrance, obstacle or impediment.
WordNet
n. any obstacle or impediment
Wikipedia
A stumbling block is a behavior or attitude that leads another to sin.
Stumbling block may also refer to:
- Stumbling block (monument), a small, cobblestone-sized memorial for a single victim of Nazism
- Stumbling block (philosophy), an object, thing, action or situation that causes an obstruction
- an obstacle
Usage examples of "stumbling block".
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
Perhaps all along it was only to present a stumbling block to our marriage.
They were the stumbling block, and not only for Clarke but for every esper in the Branch.
In fact, the only possible stumbling block I can still see is right here on Roye, and its Honest Silas Thayer.
In fact, the only possible stumbling block I can still see is right here on Roye, and it's Honest Silas Thayer.
He ran into a stumbling block at Noral, and had to wait for a change of shifts, before a sympathetic engineer cut the red tape to clear him.
But for that little matter of a civil war on Barrayar-that tiny stumbling block-that stone-paper wraps stone .
It quickly became clear to both sides that only hand-to-hand fighting was going to decide the fate of this stumbling block.