classic mistake
collocation in Englishmeaningsofclassicandmistake
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classic
adjective
uk/ˈklæs.ɪk/us/ˈklæs.ɪk/
having a high quality or standard against which other things ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk/mɪˈsteɪk/us/mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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(Definition ofclassicandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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His is theclassicmistakeof learning language with his eyes instead of his ears.
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It is theclassicmistakeof using input rather than output measurement—an increase in efficiency but not effectiveness.
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To allow it in through the back-door would be aclassicmistake.
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However, he makes theclassicmistakeof confusing asylum with migration.
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I suppose that in my lifetime the best instance of this was in 1919, when we made aclassicmistake.
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However, with respect to him, he has made aclassicmistake, because he swung in his intervention from one position to the other extreme.
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Above all else, we must keep the research activity spread as widely as possible and not repeat theclassicmistakeof concentrating it in a few research institutes.
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I trust that he will forgive me for saying that he has made theclassicmistakeof looking at turnover when he should have been looking at margins.
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From this side, it looks rather like theclassicmistakeof the trade union negotiator who gets into a dispute and does not know how to get out of it.
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Rail, therefore—as much as any of the other nationalised industries—suffered from the oneclassicmistake that the people who nationalised those industries in the 1940s innocently made.
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Aclassicmistakein this regard was in education.
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