big blunder
Frequency: 7.815.1 per million words
a significant and obvious mistake
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Examples (10)
- Firing the entire marketing team turned out to be a big blunder for the company.
- Trusting him with my secret was a big blunder; he told everyone.
- The government's decision to raise taxes during a recession was a big political blunder.
- Historians agree that invading in winter was a big blunder that cost them the war.
- It would be a big blunder to ignore these critical warning signs.
- Wasn't it a big blunder to sell their best asset so cheaply?
- I think I've made a big blunder by accidentally deleting the final report.
- The study concluded that the initial hypothesis led to a big blunder in the experimental design.
- The project failed due to a series of big blunders in its early planning stages.
- "Investing all my savings in that one stock," he admitted, "was a big blunder."