Thunder was too slow on the helm, and he'd compounded his original mistake.

He was quite right; Brianna had forgiven him for his original mistake.

But, whoever is responsible for the original mistakes, less haste in the education department would have meant a more accurate list.

"You did a lot to make up for your original mistake."

But he left the nursing home without doing so - because, the state asserts, he wanted to cover up his original mistake.

My son has also already learned that not admitting he did something wrong is often worse than having made the original mistake.

It all goes back to the original mistake - namely, that we had to hire almost anyone who came along!

The others are here because they have marriage contracts, though for some of them it's merely compounding the original mistake to come along.

Apologies were a weakness worse than the original mistake.

His letter rather suggests that he was trying to protect the person who made the original mistake.