big mistake

collocation in English

meaningsofbigandmistake

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big
adjective
uk
/bɪɡ/us
/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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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 ofbigandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbig mistake

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But that, she will insist, is abigmistake.
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Saying that war is irrational may be abigmistake.
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But to discard entirely would be abigmistake.
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I try to allow most people onebigmistake.
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Perhaps this is all a greatbigmistakeon our part.
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Thatbigmistakeof course correlated with the earlier unemployment error.
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But this time they have made abigmistake.
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Onebigmistakeis to say that war is irrational.
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I think this is abigmistake.
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That is thebigmistakethat you are making here.
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However, it would be abigmistaketo turn away before addressing the long-term causes of this problem.
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I believe it is abigmistaketo believe that more and more red tape will protect man and the environment from harmful effects.
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If we treat the area as a region of political antagonism we shall be making abigmistake.
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I also believe that creating a trust covering not just a hospital but all the services in the area was abigmistake.
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The otherbigmistakelies in the field of prediction.
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If we approach this kind of problem from that point of view, we make abigmistakeand are being very ungenerous.
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It is abigmistaketo confuse what may be termed immigrant organisations' interests with the overall policy and strategy of community relations.
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If so, they will be making abigmistake.
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I do not know whether they have made abigmistake.
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Some people imagine that anyone can be a shopkeeper, but that is abigmistake.
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