There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
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The play's title is lifted from an old English expression "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," meaning a seemingly settled event can still unravel.
From US News • Nov. 20, 2015
There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon
But how true the saying: "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip!"
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip!"
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, however.
From Five Thousand Dollars Reward by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]
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