false start

noun [C]

Translation

› an occasion when you try to start an activity, event, or process, but fail and have to stop

başarısız girişim/başlangıç, yanlış teşebbüs

The after-school club finally opened this term, after several false starts.2311

(Definition of false start noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to do something that spoils someone's plans

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