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A list of phrases related to the word "slip"...
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A slip of a thing
A slip of the pen
As busy as a one armed
paper
hanger
Bad
paper
Cheap
skate
Clyde the
Glide
( Nickname of basketball player Clyde Drexler )
Couldn't act his way out of a
paper
bag
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Err
on the safe side
Err
on the side of caution
First Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Fool's gold ( a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may
mistake
for gold )
Freudian slip
Get a
shift
on
Give someone the slip
Give the slip
Glaring
mistake
Graveyard
shift
He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown
paper
( line from nursery rhyme )
Hit the
slide
Honest
mistake
Human
error
I see you stand like greyhounds in the
slips
It sounds alright on
paper
Leg Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Let it slip through your fingers
Let something slip
Light the blue touch
paper
and retire
Make no
mistake
Next to myself, I like BVD best ( BVD
Underwear
advertising slogan )
Night
shift
Nip slip ( the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple )
Not worth the
paper
it's printed on
On
paper
On
skid
row
Paper
Doll ( Mills Brothers song )
Paper
millionaire
Paper
over the cracks
Paper
profit
Paper
the house
Paper
thin
Paper
tiger
Paper
trail
Paradigm
shift
Put pen to
paper
Second slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Shift
gears
Shift
into high gear
Shift
your arse
Slip and
slide
Slip of the tongue
Slip on a banana skin
Slip the collar
Slip up
Slip, Slidin' Away ( Paul Simon song )
Slip, sliding away
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for adultery )
Slippery customer
Slippery slope
The
Mistake
On The Lake ( Nickname of Cleveland Ohio )
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
Third Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Time
shift
To
err
is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
To
err
is human; to forgive, divine ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
Toxic
paper
Trial and
error
Triumph has the bra for the way you are ( Triumph
Lingerie
advertising slogan )
Wardrobe malfunction ( when an item of clothing
slips
out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast )
Without music, life would be a
mistake
( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )