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faire un faux pas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • stumble verb To trip or lose one’s balance while walking.

Senses

faire un faux pas is used for these senses in English:

  • put a foot wrong (idiomatic) To make a mistake.
  • stumble (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

stumble — full definition

  1. verb To trip or lose one’s balance while walking.
  2. verb To come across something by chance.

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