Mussolini believed that Britain would beg for peace, and wanted "some casualties in order to get a seat at the peace table", but that proved a huge miscalculation.

And they have made a huge miscalculation!

Vince had made a huge miscalculation, and he must have been terrified to see the contorted fury in my face.

I think that the Democrats made a huge miscalculation with the Murtha speech.

EuroDisney, its Paris project, has been a huge miscalculation.

Tony Stewart had a feeling he had made a huge miscalculation.

Ultimately, however, it proved a huge miscalculation, provoking a war so one-sided that it only lasted five days, during which time Russian forces repelled the attack and struck back deep into Georgia.

UNLESS all of West Germany's opinion polls have made a huge miscalculation, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's center-right coalition will be re-elected next week.

And making Allen the star of the show was a huge miscalculation.

So far, though, none of that has compensated for a series of huge miscalculations that has mired Tokyo in economic trouble since 1991.