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let slip something

to say something that you did not intend to say because you wanted to keep it secret. Pam let slip an interesting bit of gossip yesterday. Stupidly, I let it slip that they'd decided not to give him the job. (often + that)

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I should hear it still rippling on with its gentle harpsichord tinkle, as I stretched myself down among the cool lavendered sheets, and little by little let slip the multifarious world. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context Lydgate, not willing to let slip an opportunity of furthering a favorite purpose, ventured to say-- Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context that a prince possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context More results

References in classic literature

I should hear it still rippling on with its gentle harpsichord tinkle, as I stretched myself down among the cool lavendered sheets, and little by little let slip the multifarious world.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

Lydgate, not willing to let slip an opportunity of furthering a favorite purpose, ventured to say--

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

that a prince possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

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