Lose (one's) footing verb phrase
The word "footing" can be replaced by the word "balance."
To trip and fall unintentionally.
I lost my footing when I was playing soccer yesterday. Now it hurts like hell.
Used for saying that entering an unpleasant circumstance causes one to lose their stability.
I'm really worried man! I just lost my job and now I feel like I'm slowly losing my footing.
1. Fall in a sequence
2. Be damaged, destroyed or defeated quickly and sequentially
1. To stumble
2. To make someone to stumble :
3. To blunder, stutter
4. To make someone blunder, stutter
To come off something into flakes or small pieces
To change or fall over suddenly and dramatically.
1. Used to say that someone missteps or stumbles while walking.
2. Used to say that someone makes an unwise, miscalculated, or blundering act or decision.
The verb "lose" should be conjugated according to its tense.
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.