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Meanings of great blunder in English

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Usage of great blunder in English
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I mean that all traveling just after marriage is a great blunder.
The Man Between: An International Romance
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The king's attempt to intimidate the Commons was a great blunder.
Early European History
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You must have made some great blunder or she would have married you.
A Daughter of Fife
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He had made, they said, a great blunder, and had found it out.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Whereupon, McClellan's fatal lack of humor permitted him to make a great blunder.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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The second happened to be a great blunder for the soldier who invented it.
The Desert of Wheat
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We've made a great blunder but it's too late now.
The Companions of Jehu
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Yet, but for one great blunder, the provinces should and probably would have existed now.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
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A glance at a map of Australia will enable the reader to realise my great blunder.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
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The great blunder was in the over-issue of notes when there was no money to redeem them.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleo...
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For this scheme of medical question and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology.
What's Wrong with the World
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But the first great blunder, detaching Longstreet, cannot be accounted for in any way I know of.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
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Stanton made at least one great blunder.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
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Germany's second great blunder was an arrogant underestimation of a self-reliant people of English culture and traditions.
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea
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He made the great blunder of not recognizing the strength and leadership of Van Buren and Silas Wright.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
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Socially our Lord was making a great blunder, perhaps a fatal blunder, in talking to this Samaritan woman.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888
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