english
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slip out of sth
( also slip sth off )
to quickly take off a piece of clothing
• Slip your shirt off and I'll listen to your heart., slip up
to make a mistake
• These figures don't make sense - have we slipped up somewhere?, slip into sth
( also slip sth on )
to quickly put on a piece of clothing
• If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
• You don't need to go into the changing rooms - just slip the jacket on over your sweater.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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verb
stumbled:
She slipped on the ice.
verb
sneaked:
She slipped out of class.
noun
blunder:
It was a slip of the tongue.
Simple Definitions
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noun mistake ADJ. little, slight, tiny | unfortunate | Freudian VERB + SLIP make She made a couple of unfortunate slips during the talk. PHRASES a slip of the pen/tongue I didn't mean to say that?it was just a slip of the tongue. piece of paper ADJ. betting, pay, rejection, voting He got over fifty rejection slips before his novel was published. PREP. on a/the ~ He wrote the address on a slip of paper. PHRASES a slip of paper
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with SLIP, Also see GIVE THE SLIP; LET SLIP.
American Heritage Idioms