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Discover LudwigThe phrase "big pitfall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant or major risk or disadvantage in a particular situation.
Example: "One big pitfall of working from home is the potential for distractions that can affect productivity."
Alternatives: "major drawback" or "significant risk."
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"We avoided a big pitfall today," Busch said.
A big pitfall with financial products is the danger of mis-selling.
The big pitfall of making predictions is, of course, making specific predictions that miss the mark in ridiculous ways.
"The big pitfall is thinking of it as the seventh season instead of a new season," said Mr. Milch, a 54-year-old former literature instructor at Yale with a passion for the racetrack.
A similar (and similarly big) pitfall for evolutionary educators, related to this problem of directional progress, involves presenting each feature of an organism as an adaptation.
We begin and end at Tony's New York apartment, and everything that happens in between is positioned predominately through his POV ― a big pitfall on the movie's part, since Don is the more relevant (and interesting) character.
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Activists are currently facing the true test for any investor in a volatile, even declining, market: can they create value for investors while avoiding big pitfalls?
What's been your biggest pitfall?
Applying color can be the biggest pitfall.
Here, he thinks, lies the biggest pitfall in trying to fast-track progress: you need to start from scratch.
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