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Phrase(s): slip through someone’s fingers
1. Lit. to slide through and out of one’s grasp. • The glass slipped through his fingers and crashed to the ground. • The rope slipped through his fingers and followed the anchor to the bottom of the lake. 2. Fig. to escape from someone; to elude someone’s capture or control. • The prisoner slipped through the sheriff ’s fingers. • Don’t let Max slip through your fingers again this time!
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs