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give the slip

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give someone the slip
Sl. to escape from a pursuer. We were on his tail until he gave us the slip. I can give her the slip in no time at all.
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give somebody the slip  (informal)
to escape from someone who is with you, following you, or watching you There was a man following me when I left the office, but I gave him the slip on the crowded main street.
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give somebody the slip
to escape from someone who is watching or following you Reporters kept trying to follow the agents, and the agents drove in circles trying to give them the slip.
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Thus they raced until the turn for home, Ice Dancer in a clear lead but fully expected to perish soon afterwards (which he did), the big two looming up to pass Give The Slip and battle it out up the straight.
GODOLPHIN'S second string Give The Slip came within a heartbreaking length of lifting the Melbourne Cup yesterday morning.
Byline: DAVID CARR GIVE THE SLIP narrowly failed to land an historic victory in the Tooheys New Melbourne Cup at Flemington this morning.
 
 
 
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