slip out

1. See let slip out .

2. Also, . 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.

Example Sentences

She says she heard a clicking noise in her safety restraint, after which she began to slip out of her seat.

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The risk is that things can slip out of control very quickly.

From BBC

A fourth defeat in five means Munster remain seventh but could slip out of the play-off places this weekend.

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Walz said that the president has captured a group of voters whose "economic future is so precarious it could slip out from under them" and charged the party with crafting a message that grabs those people.

From Salon

But in the heat of the moment, playing sport, sometimes things slip out a little bit.

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