Phrase thesaurus
Slip Phrases
91 phrases and expressions related to "slip".
Phrases
- 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
- 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)
Related
- A slip of a thing
- A slip of the pen
- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
- First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
- Freudian slip
- Give someone the slip
- Give the slip
- Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
- Let it slip through your fingers
- Let something slip
- Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
- Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
- 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
- There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
- Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)