/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fall into a Snare (To)
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or “To fall into an ambuscade.” To stumble accidentally into a snare. This is a Latin phrase. “insidias incidĕre.” Similarly, to fall into disgrace is the Latin “ni offensionem cadĕre.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.