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Trip up   /trɪp əp/   Listen
Trip up

verb
1.
Detect a blunder or misstep.  Synonym: catch.
2.
Cause to stumble.  Synonym: trip.
3.
Make an error.  Synonyms: slip up, stumble.






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"Trip up" Quotes from Famous Books



... was very impractical or else hard luck pursued his undertakings. At any rate, he had a boat built in Kentucky, an engine installed on it, and then he had the craft floated to New Orleans from which point he planned to make a trip up the Mississippi. But alas, before his boat was fully ready, there was a drop in the river and the vessel was left high ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett

... know. I'd like to know why a government of the people makes a law nobody wants, and spends the public's money in enforcing it. Also I'd like to know why they take a vicious delight in striving to make criminals of honest enough people in the process. Also I'd like to know how your people intend to trip up certain people for a crime which they have never committed, and don't intend to commit, and, anyway, before they can be punished must be caught red-handed. You've got your problems sure enough, and—and these are some of the simplest ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum

... a windy and cloudy day, and a majority of the passengers were glad enough to remain in the cabin during the trip up the river. About noon it began to thunder and ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.

... Hooper, opening the door as the engine left us in the siding on the sand, and the strong south-easter buffeting under Elsie's Peak dusted sand into our tickey beer. Presently he sat down to a file full of spiked documents. He had returned from a long trip up-country, where he had been reporting on damaged rolling- stock, as far away as Rhodesia. The weight of the bland wind on my eyelids; the song of it under the car roof, and high up among the rocks; the drift of fine grains chasing each other musically ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... we take a trip up a small river to the East of Ikoko which winds through dense forest and is evidently full of fish, for at intervals, barricades are erected which stretch right across the river, with the exception of a small space to allow canoes to go up and down. In the middle or one side however, an opening ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman


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