slip out
verb- To leave quietly and unnoticed.
- To go out for a brief moment; to pop out.
- To be said or revealed by accident. · I was talking to Jim, about Paul and Ethel, when it just slipped out about their possible divorce. I’m sorry.
- Of an object: to work loose and slide out of proper position.
From the library
Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches; but they do slip out so often before you think, don’t they?
Then will come the greatest criminal trial of the century, the clearing up of over forty mysteries, and the rope for all of them; but if we move at all prematurely, you understand, they may slip out of our hands even at the last moment.
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