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give the slip

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give someone 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 someone 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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After a 51-mile chase over two freeways, Michael Greer, 29, tried to give the slip to the California Highway Patrol by running into a house in the 19800 block of Covello Street, stripping down and turning on the shower's hot water, police said.
 
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