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false move

noun

a movement that may be interpreted as threatening.
an act or action that can cause trouble or damage; mistake:
If the bus driver had made one false move, we would have skidded off the icy road.

Richard heard, and the whispers so shook his mind that he made a false move, lost a piece, lost the game.

He knew perfectly well what a false move, or an ill-considered word, might mean to him.

It was a false move, upon which Palmerston and Russell seized with eagerness and,—it may be imagined,—private glee.

One false move now, and it would mean the end of all things for him.

A false move now, the least slip of a tongue aching to rain curses on Power, and irretrievable mischief would be done.

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