32 Metaphors for mistakes

Such mistakes are frequently madea kind of auto-suggestion.' 'Mistaken!'

I think that you sometimes make the mistake of supposing that to be silenced is the same thing as being convinced.

Catrina was an easy tool in the hands of such as Claude de Chauxville; for he had dealt with women and that which is evil in women all his life, and the only mistakes he ever made were those characteristic errors of omission attaching to a persistent ignorance of the innate good in human nature.

My mistakes, impotencies, perversions, mental obstructions, and frustrations generally, are also results of the activity of cells.

The usual effect of punch is to cause people to see double; but, on this occasion, the mistake was the other way, for two boats had touched the strand, instead of the one announced by the commodore, and they brought with them the whole party from the Wigwam, Steadfast and Aristabalus included.

Her mistakes may be monitions to us.

A mistake made should be a lesson learned.

" "It is quite certain that a great mistake has been madethat British popular geology at the present time is in direct opposition to the principles of Natural Philosophy.

The sorriest mistake of which men can be guilty,yet it is a mistake which has clouded many lives,is to suppose that duty is less imperative in its claims on the humble and unknown than on men raised or born to eminent position.

This troubled him afterward, when he considered that he had used the carriage and horses, and that the mistake was his own fault.

We are all liable to err, but deceived or not, a man should be sincere; an honest mistake is not a lie, but a stage on the road to truth.

Another mistake, as it appears to us, is the too didactic strain into which the authoress occasionally fallswriting as if for the purpose of forcing lessons on children or the poor, rather than for grown-up and educated readers.

Adams's first mistake was the appointment of Clay as Secretary of State.

The great mistake with Mr. Powers has been his oversight regarding these limits.

Here mistake and solecism are as plainly nominatives, as if the preceding subjects had been declinable words.

His mistake is offerin' it to us.

In fact, their mistakes were the source of half his work.

So, yez see, I have yez both ways!" Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

In the truest sense there are no mistakes; a mistake being simply a case where things failed to come out as we calculated.

Very frequently I used to start up from my desk, thinking that I was in some diminutive room ashore; and my mistake was the more natural, as we had three horses, a dog, several pigs, hens, geese, and a canary bird on board, all respectively neighing, barking, grunting, cackling, and singing, as if they were in a farm-yard.

The on'y mistake she ever made was one night when, arter losing no less than seven friends, she found out it was the man next door hanging pictures at three o'clock in the morning.

Their second mistake was the rejection in 1908 by a body of Peers at Lansdowne House of the Licensing Bill, which had occupied many weeks of the time of the House of Commons.

Your mistakes are matters of fact; but to enumerate them does not exhaust the truth.

"I've thought for some time that he might be one of the Tennis Club that came out to Fairview at my brother's invitation last summer, and I thought he suspected who I was, andand wouldn't tell becausebecause he saw, just as I did, what fun the mistake was.

The mistake made by Warwick's men, when they thought Oxford's cognizance, a star paled with rays, was that of Edward, which was a sun in full glory, (the White Rose en soleil,) and so assailed their own friends, and created a panic, was in part attributable to the mist, which prevented them from seeing clearly; and this mistake was the immediate occasion of the overthrow of the army of the Red Rose.

32 Metaphors for  mistakes