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Brewer's: Fall into a Snare
(To), or “To fall into an ambuscade.” To stumble accidentally into a snare. This is a Latin phrase, “insidias incidere. ” Similarly, to fall into disgrace is the Latin “ni offensionem cadere.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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