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even Homer sometimes nods
idiom saying(alsoHomer sometimes nods, even Homer nods)
used to say that even an expert sometimes makes mistakes:
The famous aphorism about human fallibility is that even Homer nods.
Although his book is both erudite and entertaining, this Homer sometimes nods.
The fact that Bede’s history is usually very reliable ought not to make us forget that even Homer sometimes nods.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making mistakes
balls
balls (something) up
blunder
blunderingly
bodge
making
misdiagnose
misdiagnosis
misdirect
misdirection
misremember
misrender
misstate
mistake
mistranscribe
stumbling
stumblingly
to err is human (to forgive divine).idiom
trip (someone) up
uncorrectable
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