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false steps
n. (false step English)
Usage examples of "false steps".
She was a symbol of the world gone wrong and Jonathan Wolff's false steps through it.
And what has my life been, Alfred wondered dismally, but an endless series of slips and false steps?
She was at first so much embarrassed that shemade a great many false steps, for to stand so close to a man,and to feel his arm about her waist, positively constrainingher to move in whatever direction he wished, was an unprecedentedand rather alarming experience, and one, moreover,which she knew would have been violently disapprovedof by her guardian and her governess.