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    This isn't happening in either of the OP's examples. They didn't do anything wrong because they were in a hurry, it was other people seemingly conspiring against them. Commented 2 days ago
  • I think in the OP's examples there's an element of helplessness due to outward circumstances. It's nothing to do with their making mistakes, so this doesn't quite work. Commented 2 days ago
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    As other comments point out, these don’t fit the examples in the question body. But they are excellent for the question as phrased in the title. Commented 2 days ago
  • This is more like measure twice and cut once and stuff like that, for knitting three arms in a sweater or whatever. But not my downvote. Commented 17 hours ago