put a foot wrong

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Verb

put a foot wrong (third-person singular simple present puts a foot wrong, present participle putting a foot wrong, simple past and past participle put a foot wrong)

1. (idiomatic) To make a mistake.

Translations

make a mistake

Danish: træde i spinaten (literally “step into the spinach”) Finnish: tehdä virhe French: faire un faux pas, faire un pas de travers Polish: być w błędzie (pl) impf Swedish: trampa i klaveret (sv) (literally “step into the accordion”)