a false move meaning
[American slang]
Fig. [even] a single movement that indicates that one is disobeying an order to remain still or in a nonthreatening posture.
The robber threatened to shoot us if we made one false move.
Fig. [even] a single movement that indicates that one is disobeying an order to remain still or in a nonthreatening posture.
The robber threatened to shoot us if we made one false move.
- false move: n. [c]a careless o ...
- one false move: [American slang]Go ...
- move: Verb: move &n ...
Examples
More: Next- make a false move and you could be in an accident
- Tremblay is a child actor incapable of a false move.
- There's not a false move to anything he does on screen.
- A false move can even come before the race.
- Although rarely off-screen, Moreno does not make a false move throughout.
