lose one's footing
miss one's footing

You start making turns and lose your footing, you're looking at a strained hamstring."

But lately, you seem to be losing your footing."

If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you will start to lose your footing."

You're not going to lose your footing now."

You just lost your footing,' he said soothingly.

To lose your footing here meant a plunge into cer-tain death.

You lose your footing when it's wet.

Lose your concentration and you could lose your footing.

"It would not be well to lose your footing," advised Ho-Tu.

If you lose your footing mid-air, the worse that will happen is you'll be left dangling, pride dented.

To make things worse, the bottom was soft, oozing mud, and it was easy to lose your footing.

(A steep pitch - no place to lose your footing while carrying a gun.)

If you lost your footing and fell down int(y--:' She barked scorn.

Take care, and don't lose your footing."

"Do not lose your footing, Naked Slave!"

When this did not seem to sink in, he tried yet another word picture: "They always feel living life is like walking across a running river on slippery rocks and you can lose your footing at any time."

Two are small and straight enough to take a smaller child on, although adults must be sure to hold them up as high as possible at the bottom, because it's easy to lose your footing and go under.

Angus appears atop the watch "controlling time" and on the sides wearing a straitjacket to "represent the folly of the group and the strength of his sound, this mix of guitars that makes you lose your footing".

The main thing to remember, Vinicius and Getúlio stressed repeatedly, was there's no need to worry about falling or losing your footing - if you slip, the rope will catch you, you'll just be left dangling mid-air.

They scrambled onto the berm, avoiding fissures that dropped straight down into blackness, staying back from the thin edges of drops and off the steep crests of slopes where, if you lost your footing, you could slide away forever.

The track narrowed, a steep bank on one side that went down to the river below; dangerous if you missed your footing.

It was real windy up there and if you missed your footing you didn't get a second chance.

The last part was the worst a rocky slope where it was easy to miss your footing and slip.

'You were coming downstairs and you missed your footing.

'Must have missed your footing,' Gideon suggested.