rookie mistake
Novice's typical error
A rookie mistake is an error characteristic of inexperience—the kind of blunder a newcomer makes that veterans know to avoid.
The term comes from sports, where a rookie is a first-year player, but applies broadly: Forgetting to save your work? Classic rookie mistake.
Often used self-deprecatingly or to gently rib someone who should have known better.
- beginnerOne who lacks experience
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- noviceInexperienced newcomer to field
- amateurNonprofessional participant
newbie · wet behind the ears · greenhorn · slip-up · fumble · crash and burn · learning · learning curve · growing pains · live and learn · oops · inexperience · clumsy · oversight · gaffe · stumble · trainee · facepalm
- mistakesslip, error, errors, blunder, blunders
- sports idiomsdrop the ball, throw in the towel, slam dunk, out of left field, level playing field
- oopsoops, whoops, whoopsie, oopsie, woopsie
- naivetygreenhorn, newbie, tenderfoot, raw recruit, born yesterday
- maturityadulthood, immature, come of age, ripe, unripe
rookie mistakemaster stroke
Supremely skillful action
masterstroke · stroke of genius · clutch performance · virtuoso performance · best practice
rookie, mistake, rookies, mistakes, mistaken, mistaking, mistook, unmistakable, unmistakably