miss one's footing
1miss one's footing — stumble, slip, fall, lose one s balance …
2footing — UK [ˈfʊtɪŋ] / US noun [singular] 1) a firm position for your feet on a surface, especially one that is difficult to stand on or walk across keep/lose/miss your footing: She lost her footing and tumbled into the river. 2) a) the basic conditions… …
3footing — foot|ing [ futıŋ ] noun singular 1. ) a firm position for your feet on a surface, especially one that is difficult to stand on or walk across: keep/lose/miss your footing: She lost her footing and tumbled into the river. 2. ) the basic conditions …
4Failure — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Failure >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 failure failure Sgm: N 1 nonsuccess nonsuccess nonfulfillment Sgm: N 1 dead failure dead failure successlessness Sgm: N 1 abortion abortion miscarriage Sgm: N 1 b …
5stumble — verb 1) she stumbled and fell heavily Syn: trip (over/up), lose one s balance, lose/miss one s footing, slip 2) he stumbled back home Syn: stagger, totter, teeter, dodder, blunder, hobble, move clumsily …
6founder — I noun the founder of modern physics Syn: originator, creator, (founding) father, prime mover, architect, engineer, designer, developer, pioneer, author, planner, inventor, mastermind; literary begetter II verb 1) the ship foundered …
7stumble — (v.) c.1300, to trip or miss one s footing (physically or morally), probably from a Scandinavian source (Cf. dialectal Norw. stumla, Swed. stambla to stumble ), probably from a variant of the P.Gmc. base *stam , source of O.E. stamerian to… …
8stumble — I. v. a. 1. Obstruct, trip, cause to stumble. 2. Perplex, confound, puzzle, nonplus, confuse, embarrass, pose. II. v. n. 1. Trip, miss one s footing, make a false step. 2. Err, do wrong. III. n. 1 …
9Table manners — Part of a series on Meals …
10slip — 1. v. & n. v. (slipped, slipping) 1 intr. slide unintentionally esp. for a short distance; lose one s footing or balance or place by unintended sliding. 2 intr. go or move with a sliding motion (as the door closes the catch slips into place;… …
