disastrous mistake
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisastrousandmistake
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disastrous
adjective
uk/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us/dɪˈzæs.trəs/
extremely bad ...
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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 ofdisastrousandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Either there has been adisastrousmistakeor it is deliberate policy to market nuclear.
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It would be a tragic anddisastrousmistake, difficult and expensive to rectify and the very reverse of so-called planning.
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To go down that route would be adisastrousmistake.
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There has never been a moredisastrousmistake.
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Here he has made a natural but, in this case,disastrousmistakeof believing what he has been told by his advisers.
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The change that we made was adisastrousmistake.
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I think that they have made adisastrousmistake.
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I respectfully suggest that in all quarters it would be felt that that was adisastrousmistake.
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It would be adisastrousmistakeif there were any cuts in higher education, especially in the reorganisation that is now being considered.
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That could well turn out to be the mostdisastrousmistakeof their lives.
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It was adisastrousmistaketo subcontract it to that vested interest.
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I am convinced that it would be a mistake, perhaps adisastrousmistake, to yield to the temptation of complacency.
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I hope that we shall avoid repeating thatdisastrousmistake.
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But for us to reverse this wise decision and reject them by the same reasoning would be adisastrousmistake.
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I believe that to be adisastrousmistake, for two separate reasons.
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That was adisastrousmistake.
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That would be adisastrousmistake.
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