banana-skin

Barcelona, which leads La Liga, had beaten Getafe 2-1 earlier that day, extending the gap at the top of the standings to eight points, and Atletico was a classic banana-skin game.

Jose Mourinho's Talents Still In Madrid Gabriele Marcotti 2011

It's always nice to see the big boys slip on a banana-skin and as a longtime resident of south London, they're my local ... um, "big" team.

Manchester United v Crystal Palace 2011

As long as we adopt the Narcissus attitude of regarding the extensions of our own bodies as really out there and really independent of us, we will meet all technological challenges with the same sort of banana-skin pirouette and collapse.

The internet as a right « BuzzMachine 2008

She knew every blackened banana-skin and empty cigarette-box in the gutters.

Main Street 2004

Siegmund rested his arms upon his knees, and sat leaning forward, looking into the barren fireplace, which was littered with paper, and orange-peel, and a banana-skin.

The Trespasser 2003

Such banana-skin detection and clearance (or 'minesweeping' as she officially called it) provided the mainstay of her spin responsibilities.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

Such banana-skin detection and clearance (or 'minesweeping' as she officially called it) provided the mainstay of her spin responsibilities.

Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

Such banana-skin detection and clearance (or 'minesweeping' as she officially called it) provided the mainstay of her spin responsibilities.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

She asks him where he has been, and he tells her that he went to the other side of the mountain to throw away a banana-skin which was left on his plate.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Be that as it may, when a small man slips on a banana-skin, or falls over a rug, or runs after his own hat, or sits down where there isn't a chair, the incident strikes people as laughable but not incongruous; they think no less of him for it – though that may be partly because they thought so little of him before.

Try Anything Twice 1938