let+slip

  • 81slip — slip1 verb (slips, slipping, slipped) 1》 lose one s balance or footing and slide unintentionally for a short distance.     ↘accidentally slide or move out of position or from someone s grasp.     ↘fail to grip or make proper contact with a… …

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  • 82slip — There are three separate words slip in English. The verb [13] was probably borrowed from Middle Low German slippen, a product of the prehistoric Germanic base *slip . This in turn went back to Indo European *sleib (source also of English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 83slip — There are three separate words slip in English. The verb [13] was probably borrowed from Middle Low German slippen, a product of the prehistoric Germanic base *slip . This in turn went back to Indo European *sleib (source also of English… …

    Word origins

  • 84slip through your fingers — if something such as a chance, opportunity, or prize slips through your fingers, you fail to get it or to take advantage of it This prestigious award has slipped through their fingers yet again. let something slip through your fingers: You mustn… …

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  • 85let — I. transitive verb (letted; letted or let; letting) Etymology: Middle English letten, from Old English lettan to delay, hinder; akin to Old High German lezzen to delay, hurt, Old English lǣt late Date: before 12th century archaic hinder, prevent… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 86let\ out — v 1a. To allow to go out or escape. The guard let the prisoners out of jail to work in the garden. Mother won t let us out when it rains. Compare: let loose 1b. informal To make (a sound) come out of the mouth; utter. A bee stung Charles. He let… …

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  • 87slip by — verb pass by three years elapsed • Syn: ↑elapse, ↑lapse, ↑pass, ↑glide by, ↑slip away, ↑go by, ↑slide by, ↑go along …

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  • 88let — {{11}}let (n.) stoppage, obstruction (obsolete unless in legal contracts), late 12c., from archaic verb letten to hinder, from O.E. lettan hinder, delay, from P.Gmc. *latjanan (Cf. O.S. lettian to hinder, O.N. letja to hold back, O.H.G. lezzen to …

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  • 89slip away — 1. to leave quickly and quietly. On the last night of conference, I decided to slip away for a few hours. 2. to slowly become less strong or able. She found her health rapidly slipping away. Every day a little more of his strength slips away. 3.… …

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  • 90slip by — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms slip by : present tense I/you/we/they slip by he/she/it slips by present participle slipping by past tense slipped by past participle slipped by if time or an opportunity slips by, it passes and you fail to… …

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