give the slip
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Do you write word, what number you would be; and setting aside business, through the back-door give the slip to your client who keeps guard in your court.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
She was resolved, in that case, if a fair opportunity had offered, to give the slip both to her jailors, and to her new and reluctantly chosen confederate.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
But it was not easy to give the slip to a man whose knuckly hand held him like a vice.
From The Big Otter by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
With or without Ismail's aid, with or without his enmity, he must control his eighty men and give the slip to the mullah, and he went at once about the best way to do both.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
He departed secretly, according to some writers to give the slip to King John, according to others to escape his creditors.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
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