trip (sb) up
UK— phrasal verb with trip uk/trɪp/us/trɪp/verb -pp-
(FALL)
to fall because you hit your foot on something, or to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of the other person's foot:
I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to trip you up.
She tripped up on the rug.
More examples
- I tripped up on a piece of loose carpet.
- He deliberately tripped me up.
- She tripped up and dropped the tray.
- He tripped up on the doorstep.
- A fallen branch tripped me up.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Falling and dropping
- ass
- ass over teakettle idiom
- collapse
- collapse/fall in a heap idiom
- cropper
- crumple
- drop
- drop like flies idiom
- drop sb/sth off
- fly
- hit the deck idiom
- let go idiom
- nosedive
- overbalance
- parachutist
- plunge
- pratfall
- put sth/sb down
- shower
- thump
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
(FAIL)
informal to make a mistake, or to cause someone to make a mistake:
The exam went quite well, until I tripped up on the last question.
In the interview, they kept trying to trip me up.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making mistakes
- balls
- balls (sth) up
- blunder
- bodge
- botch
- drop
- famous
- famous last words idiom
- goof
- making
- misdirect
- put
- slip
- slip up
- speak/talk out of turn idiom
- to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
- trip
- turn
- unforced
- wrong
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