View synonyms for slip out

slip out

See let slip out .
Also, slip away or off . Leave quietly and unobtrusively, as in She slipped out without telling a soul , or Let's slip away before the sermon , or Jason and Sheila slipped off to Bermuda . The use of slip with away dates from about 1450; out from the first half of the 1500s; off from the mid-1800s.

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I know that Detroit is losing market share in auto sales, but how did they let the Motown sound slip out of their hands?

Those are the first words that slip out of my mouth when I greet Andrew Garfield at a hotel suite in Downtown Toronto.

Patients often become frightened of moving suddenly because of a concern the tube might slip out.

What the economist does is to slip out of the difficulty altogether by begging the whole question.

"If slightly cut before cooking, potatoes slip out of their skins easily," says a home journal.

Since he had decided to 'slip out' this attitude towards his cousin was necessarily involved.

If a knock came to the door, Willy would slip out to the wood-house before we opened it, lest it might be anybody coming in.

But Raf's own inclination was to slip out and do some exploring in those underground corridors beyond.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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