be slipping

To fail to do something as well as one normally does. This dish tastes strange—I think the chef is slipping.

be ˈslipping

(informal) (of somebody’s behaviour or performance) not be as good, tidy, efficient, etc. as usual; not be up to somebody’s usual high standard: You’re slipping, Edwina: this letter is full of typing errors. ♢ That’s three times he’s beaten me — I must be slipping!

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I think he must be slipping," at last I heard him sigh.

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He wanted to gulp in a few last breaths of tranquillity before the tension of a season that seems to be slipping away from him began to tighten its grip again.

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