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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Saw this sentence in a forum I was reading:
I fell fault to the same trap.
Is he thinking ‘I fell foul of the same trap?’ Or is it just too mixed up (‘to’ rather than ‘of’, some kind of mixed metaphor ‘fell into the same trap’?)
Jo
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