Slip

[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, […]

Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped, giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner.

There is one that slippeth in his speach, but not from his heart, and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

A bone may slip out of place.

I caught the thief, but he slipped my grasp and ran away.

She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.

Tvvo other VVitneſſes gave the follovving Evidence; That in his officious Attendance upon his Miſtreſs, he had try'd to ſlip a Povvder into her Drink, and that he vvas once catch'd endeavouring to ſtifle her vvith a Pillovv as ſhe vvas aſleep; […]

“This is a very urgent message for the countess’ ears alone,” replied Rokoff. “Tell her that she must arise and slip something about her and come to the telephone. I shall call up again in five minutes.”

Some errors slipped into the appendix.

Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.

We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift […]

Keith wants to have it both ways. He has engaged me in a political debate, but when his politics are challenged he slips behind a smoke-screen of anti-intellectualism.

He was grey and had eight legs, and could travel anywhere and slip into any corner of 9 worlds. For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.

Profits have slipped over the past six months.

The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.

Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.

'Well, it was one morning early in the spring,' said Lars, 'that I started for Linderudsœter, where I slipped Rap, and he was soon in full cry and made the hillside ring.'

And slip no advantage / That may secure you.

to slip a piece of cloth or paper

The branches also may be slipped and planted.

A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.

We have been consistently slipping the product release schedules.

If you are going to slip the schedule, make it a big slip and make it early in your endgame effort so that your stakeholders can respond and adjust around you.

As for trains, the contract was due to be awarded last year, but Rayner confirms that this has slipped and will now be awarded next year.

I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.

a slip of the tongue

This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.

In quoting this passage I have taken the liberty to correct a grammatical slip.

He took a screamer at slip.

We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.

He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.

This morning I made a slip from the Office to White Hall.

a pillow slip

the slip or sheath of a sword

ROMEO:[…]Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? MERCUTIO:The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive?

the Grindstone, commonly called Slipp, is used to the same purpose in dying of Silks.

The gallery contains nine rows of seats, besides those in the slips.

After about a dozen competitions someone suggested that a slip should be sent round to those who applied for it, containing in full the clues of all prizewinners and of those highly commended (there was only room for the first prizewinner’s clue in the paper).

Manley is also a regular at the top of the Azed slip. As the two men talked, they quoted memorable clues as if they were lines of poetry.

Over the years I have given my views several times on this issue, both in the slips and in my 2006 book A-Z of Crosswords, but it will do no harm to repeat them yet again.

a slip from a vine

"So much for auguries," said Emily, pointing to a young geranium, which was growing in vigour below. "The day before I left home, I planted that slip, and, in idea, linked my futurity with the slight shrub, saying, If it flourishes, so shall I—if it dies, I shall die too. See how luxuriantly it blooms!"

a native slip to us from foreign seeds

She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.

Never, nevermore / Shall lone Œnone see the morning mist / Sweep thro' them—never see them overlaid / With narrow moonlit slips of silver cloud, / Between the loud stream and the trembling stars.

a salary slip

The Wasserpfeife or water-whistle from Moravia was a bird whistle made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. […] The bird is of a grey and brown mottled glaze with sgraffito markings and touches of green slip.