slip up

VERB
  1. make an error
    She slipped up and revealed the name
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How To Use slip up In A Sentence

  • But no matter how stage-managed the campaign is, someone will always slip up.
  • They are merry enough when together, but not one of them will go alone for a "piggin" of water, and if you slip up in the shadow of the old oak and throw a stone into the spring, the entire party will rush away at the splash, screaming with fear, convinced that the "cymbie" is after them. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
  • We mostly adopted trade sales to maximize revenues, and they were generally clean, despite occasional slip ups.
  • I heard people speaking in the living room, so I shut the door as quietly as I could, hoping to slip upstairs without being noticed.
  • If a Highway Patrol car was going to slip up from behind, it would be right about now.
  • We can't afford to slip up.
  • Not that I wished that fate on him its just sometimes as a kid, and as an adult too, you think that the only way to get out of those comparison shadows is for the other person to completely slip up.
  • We were hoping he'd stay on his methadone programme but he'd slip up. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heaven help me, here's that shilpit creature and me hoping for once she'd slip up and be unpunctual.
  • But how often have you seen men slip up and wear derby shoes with worn-out jeans, or even casual loafers with suits, for example?
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