slip out
Idioms-
See let slip out .
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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
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Is it rude to slip out of a party without saying goodbye?
Too loose and he’d slip out, too tight and he wouldn’t be able to move.
From Literature
All I had to do was open my window and slip out into the cool of the night.
From Literature
"We let the virus slip out through our fingers when it first emerged in the poultry industry," said corresponding senior author Thijs Kuiken, a professor at Erasmus MC.
From Science Daily
But there was no way the towering Newcastle United forward - all 6ft 6in of him - was going to slip out of the stadium unnoticed.
From BBC
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