stumbling-block

See also: stumblingblock and stumbling block

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Noun

stumbling-block (plural stumbling-blocks)

(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?

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stumbling block — see stumbling block

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