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slip out

verbo
  1. To leave quietly and unnoticed. (informal, intransitive)
  2. To go out for a brief moment; to pop out. (informal, intransitive)
  3. To be said or revealed by accident. (informal, intransitive) · I was talking to Jim, about Paul and Ethel, when it just slipped out about their possible divorce. I’m sorry.
  4. Of an object: to work loose and slide out of proper position. (informal, intransitive)
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Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches; but they do slip out so often before you think, don’t they?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 202 · C1
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 106 · B2

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