slip stitch

To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral.

Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.

So my mother begged me to slip into the Rooms, with what was left, and try to get something back.

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

Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

It's easy for a prisoner t' slip a note to a friend that happens t' be mountin' guard.