"pitfall and gin" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xi. 103",
          "text": "\"All I know of this old trail [...] is what you can see. I got it from the highroad. I was covering the kite who went in. Where it leads, and if it's beset with \"pitfall and gin\", I can't say.\"",
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          "ref": "1930, History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 1858 to 1928, page 352",
          "text": "Thanks, however, to the almost uncanny faculty of the Gurkha for avoiding, in the dark, “pitfall and gin\" — in this case tent ropes, ravines, and terraces, these last in some places giving a drop of twelve feet or even more'",
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          "ref": "1949 January 13, The Herald, Melbourne, page 13, column 2",
          "text": "NOT in the same \"head ache\" class as Mr O. Richardson's \"New Year's Gift,\" but still with a few pitfalls and gins for the unwary, this innocent six-card problem has a certain novelty of its own.",
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        "Two types of trap (see pitfall and gin), used figuratively to refer to obstacles or impediments to people, or anything that might trick or ensnare someone."
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          "text": "Thanks, however, to the almost uncanny faculty of the Gurkha for avoiding, in the dark, “pitfall and gin\" — in this case tent ropes, ravines, and terraces, these last in some places giving a drop of twelve feet or even more'",
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