trip up

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	trip up - detect a blunder or misstep; "The reporter tripped up the senator" catch get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, discover, find out, pick up, see - get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
	2.	trip up - cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" trip
	3.	trip up - make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" slip up, stumble err, mistake, slip - to make a mistake or be incorrect

Translations

? trip up

vi

(lit) → stolpern

(fig) → sich vertun

vt sep

(= make fall) → stolpern lassen; (deliberately) → zu Fall bringen

(fig: = cause to make a mistake etc) → eine Falle stellen (+dat), → aufs Glatteis führen; he was trying to trip me up with his ad-libbing → er versuchte, mich mit seinem Improvisieren aus dem Konzept zu bringen; question six managed to trip most of the candidates up → die meisten Prüflinge sind über die sechste Frage gestolpert