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The body's improvised jazz solo, performed solely to terrify the heart for half a second.
means To trip or lose your footing mid-step, or by extension to falter, blunder, or come upon something by accident.
from From Middle English stumblen, a word of Scandinavian roots — compare Old Norse and dialectal Norwegian words for staggering or tripping. It belongs to a family of 'st-' words for unsteady motion (stammer, stumble, stutter), where the tongue and the feet seem to share the same clumsiness.
recovery speedThe brain corrects a trip in under 100 milliseconds
old rootFrom Norse 'stumra,' kin to stammering and stumps
phantom stepBrains predict stairs that aren't there, causing falls
toddler tallyLearning to walk averages 17 falls per hour
lucky breaksPenicillin and Velcro both came from stumbled accidents