following vs following in

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After spending years following his father's footsteps to the chairman's seat of Samsung Group, Mr Lee is trying to avoid the missteps that triggered his father's two criminal convictions.

Shouldnt it be "following in" nstead?

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Yes it should. We are talking about a set phrase. A person follows in another's footsteps.

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@tanguatlay,

Yes as Cen implies, without the 'in,' the sentence suggests to the speedreaser that he literally followed actual depressions in the ground

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@tanguatlay,

tanguatlay wrote:

After spending years following his father's footsteps to the chairman's seat of Samsung Group, Mr Lee is trying to avoid the missteps that triggered his father's two criminal convictions.

This piece is inelegant and lazy. The ugly following of 'footsteps' by ' missteps' is purely a matter of style, whereas to describe what led to Mr Lee's criminal convictions as 'missteps' is an error. A misstep is a mistake or blunder, whereas the things that led to Lee's conviction (tax evasion, bribery, price fixing) were deliberate, planned acts.

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