stumbling-block

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See also: stumblingblock and stumbling block

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Noun[edit]

stumbling-block (plural stumbling-blocks)

  1. (idiomatic) Alternative spelling of stumbling block
    • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 119:
      What is a wife but a pretended stumbling-block in the man's path, who has his way to make in the world?

Translations[edit]

stumbling block — see stumbling block
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