Citations:rake-stepping

Noun: "(slang) the act of repeatedly making damaging and avoidable mistakes"

 * 2019, Nick Senior, "Hash Redactor", New Noise, Issue #47, page 29:
 * The band play a familiar yet fresh style of art punk that takes more than a few cues from post-punk, and their lyrics take a perverse yet playful view of humanity's rake-stepping self-destructive side.
 * 2019, Tina Nguyen, "Biden Advisers Worry the Gaffes Are Becoming a Problem", Vanity Fair, 13 August 2019:
 * But the rake-stepping won’t stop, and the attacks won’t go away, raising the question of whether there will come a tipping point for Biden.
 * 2022, Louis Ashworth, RBC: The UK’s double indemnity danger", Financial Times, 4 October 2022:
 * After several weeks of rake-stepping you conclude that the current government might not have the wholehearted confidence of the markets, at a time where you are preparing gargantuan levels of gilt issuance to raise money for huge amounts of energy support.
 * 2023, Mark Gongloff, "FEMA Isn’t Ready for Our New Age of Climate Disasters", Bloomberg, 12 September 2023:
 * And despite occasional attempts at reform, usually in response to some epic rake-stepping by the agency, federal disaster relief has gotten no simpler or more effective.
 * 2023, William Beutler, "How Elon Musk accidentally sparked a social media renaissance", The Hill, 29 September 2023:
 * So long as Musk cares about Twitter, even his rake-stepping mismanagement won’t drive it into total irrelevance.
 * 2024, Matthew Noble, "Look to the West one Last Time.", Masonic Messenger (Grand Lodge of Georgia), Spring 2024, page 26:
 * I started the way “I” believed to be the right way, but after almost three months of rake stepping, I finally started learning to do things that have helped me be both professionally and personally successful and grow that leadership and management skill that I had never used before.
 * 2024, Tom E. Curran, "Five burning questions the Patriots need to answer this summer", NBC Sports Boston, 19 June 2024:
 * VP of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf oozes with, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing …” and has deftly escaped any blame for the personnel rake-stepping of the past few seasons.