slip of the tongue

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a slip of the tongue

a mistake you make when speaking, such as using the wrong word. Did I say she was forty? I meant fourteen - just a slip of the tongue.

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NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends, any more than Miles has alluded to his expulsion. Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context Tulkinghorn, excusing himself for this slip of the tongue by saying to Judy, "I was thinking of your grandmother, my dear. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context "Lvovitch," repeated the general without the slightest haste, and with perfect confidence, just as though he had not committed himself the least in the world, but merely made a little slip of the tongue. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context More results

References in classic literature

NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends, any more than Miles has alluded to his expulsion.

Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context

Tulkinghorn, excusing himself for this slip of the tongue by saying to Judy, "I was thinking of your grandmother, my dear.

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

"Lvovitch," repeated the general without the slightest haste, and with perfect confidence, just as though he had not committed himself the least in the world, but merely made a little slip of the tongue.

The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

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