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pitfall English

Meaning pitfall meaning

What does pitfall mean?

pitfall

an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty (= pit) a trap in the form of a concealed hole

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as pitfall?

pitfall English » English

trap snare pit booby-trap booby trap catch ruse kheda hole cavern

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Movie subtitles

You always fall down in the pitfall.
It's the pitfall of being in the public eye.
My road goes on and every pitfall in the road is skirted pretty much definitively.
Professional pitfall.
They taken us from a pitfall..
Of course, the pitfall of choosing someone for safety is that we come to resent them over time.
I suspect there may be a pitfall.
Gus, it's just like pitfall.
It's a pitfall of your chosen occupation.
I've got mad pitfall skills.
Pitfall of being East Lake's unofficial historian.
As I was saying there is one pitfall which we ladies must avoid.
Professional pitfall. Writers observe. That was very rude of me.
How good that you could overcome the pitfall Claudius.
It is a pitfall that this subject, I created.

News and current affairs

The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.
A pitfall to be avoided here comes in sweetening the deal by converting a government monopoly into a private monopoly - which may be an improvement but falls far short of the desirable outcome.
The US Postal Service illustrates that pitfall as well as the fallacy that mimicking the form of private enterprise can achieve the substance.

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