I keep tripping over those empties.

You can't do business anymore for tripping over cops everywhere.

We drive into the town, day tripping like tourists in hell.

Your days of tripping over cobblestones and scuffling with kids are over.

Then, when that reasonable expectation was not met by the tripping sidekick, irony would have been exemplified.

So, good by, Eliza good by, George the Lord grant thee a safe journey and, with a few tripping steps, Ruth was out of the apartment.

Does thee keep up good courage, Eliza? she added, tripping round to Eliza's side of the table, and shaking her warmly by the hand, and slipping a seed cake into Harry's hand.

Rather, the problem is a polarized Congress that has taken no major economic decisions in the last few years other than missteps (like the fiscal cliff) that risk tripping the economy into recession.

Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. But beyond the fun and flavor tripping, there's a serious intent Can we use new food technology for good?

In these miniature circuit breakers, the current is run through a solenoid, and, in the event of excess current flow, the magnetic pull of the solenoid is sufficient to force open the circuit breaker's contacts (often indirectly through a tripping mechanism).

But today the US Congress and President are tripping over themselves to adopt an ill advised giant fiscal stimulus package, whose main effects will be to tie the hands of the next president in simplifying the US tax code and closing the budget deficit.

The violent reactions last year to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper saw a confused Western response, with governments tripping over their tongues trying to explain what the media should and should not be allowed to do in the name of political satire.