Sentence examples for one bad step from inspiring English sources
"Yet you can come in here one morning -- all they have to do is take one bad step and that $2 million, $4 million investment is not worth an egg sandwich".
Make one bad step in certain areas of the complex, and the floor gives way.
One bad step in the dark, and you can wind up with a broken leg or stuck up to your chest in muck either unable to get yourself out or immobilized long enough for the cold and wet to sink into you.
"We also think they are taking an extreme step after one bad year to recommend that the school be shut down".
"Took a bad step," is just one of several stock phrases ("Put a foot wrong," is another) used by sportswriters to avoid acknowledging thoroughbred racing's central evasion: the 2-and 3-year-olds on the tracks are immature, and their legs' still-developing bones, tendons and ligaments can't handle the stresses generated by the 30-plus-mile-per-hour speeds at which they must compete to win.
Maybe the track, for a bad step.
One step backwards, one step forward.
But fans know the stories of players who flashed historical talents only to be diminished by bad luck — one wrong step, or a ball that broke in an unexpected way.
If one step is bad, however, you're sunk totally and completely.
One step up and one step back.
