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cause to stumble
The questions on the test tripped him up -
make an error
She slipped up and revealed the name -
detect a blunder or misstep
The reporter tripped up the senator
How To Use trip up In A Sentence
- A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay.
- The humorous storyteller's strategy, as Twain wrote, is to feign innocence so as to trip up the audience's. The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
- The guy you'll see in those pix is Steeltip, a character that uses archery not only to attack but to fire "trick arrows," like flashbangs to disorient, poison gas clouds, splashes of acid to degrade armor, and oil slicks to trip up his enemies. Friday Pix
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- Then walk the calories off by taking a trip up to the raised deck skywalk. The Sun
- As Connors spoke, I barely noticed our trip up the valley.
- If I don’t agree, likely you’ll trip up m’ foreleg an’ reshoe me anyway. Rebel Spurs
- At dawn there is time for one last trip up the elevator.
- The interviewer got nowhere with trying to manipulate or trip up the pugnacious trial lawyer turned politician.
- When the meeting point was reached and the winches stopped for the last time, riggers and welders made the perilous trip up the arch and got four steel joists to fit in the abutting edge.
