10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIVE SOMEONE THE SLIP»
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give someone the slip in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
give someone the slip and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reading English News on
the Internet: A Guide to Connectors, ...
Catch red-handed: Ledger: Related expressions: To turn the other check To turn
a blind eye to 2.39 To give someone the slip Meaning: To escape from something
or someone Meaning in your language: Usage: A (person) gives B (person) the ...
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American English Idiomatic Expressions in 52 Weeks: An Easy ...
... the doubt (SER) 102 give someone the brush-off (DIS) 155 give someone the
cold shoulder (REL) 158 give someone the eye (COMM) 138 give someone the
green light (SER) 110 give someone the slip (MOVE) 1 16 give someone their
due ...
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Idiomatic Expressions with English Grammar' 99 Ed.
... DOUBT GIVE SOMEONE THE BIRD GIVE SOMEONE THE BUM'S RUSH GIVE
SOMEONE THE GATE GIVE SOMEONE THE GREEN LIGHT GIVE SOMEONE
THE HEAVE-HO GIVE SOMEONE THE SLIP GIVE SOMEONE THE GO-BY GIVE
...
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English idioms for Spanish speakers
... give someone the sack 236 to give someone the slip 255 to give someone too
much rope 232 to give something to drink (to eat) 258 to give the bride away 36
to give the devil his due 70 to give tit for tat 295 to give to understand 1 1 1 to give
...
Eugene Savaiano, Lynn W. Winget, 2007
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
RAF and aircraft engineers', since ca. 1920; hence, more widespread, applied to
automobiles; ob. Gun=accelerator. Cf. gun, n.,9, and v., 2, qq.v. give the guy to.
To run away from; give (someone) the slip: low:—1899. Cf. do a guy. give the
heat ...
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American Slang: Cultural Language Guide to Living in
the USA
Give someone the slip: to evade; to hide from. Jack is famous for talking your ear
off, so I had to give him the slip so I could get some work done today. Let slip:
reveal something inadvertently. I let slip to Bob about the surprise party. Slip me
five: ...
Joseph Melillo, Edward M. Melillo, 2004
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
sling sling mud at see mud. slip a Freudian slip see Freud. give (someone) the
slip (in/) to escape from or avoid (someone) in a secretive manner: The crooks
gave the policemen the siip. let (something) slip 1 to miss (an opportunity etc): I
let ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... boo-boo, howler, goof, blooper. 3 a silk slip: underskirt, petticoat. slip –phrases
give someone the slip informal we gave Murphy.
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Heinemann English Dictionary
Phrases give someone the slip (informal) to escape from someone. slip of the
tongue something said or mentioned accidentally. slip2 noun 1 a strip or narrow
piece of wood, paper, etc.: a bank deposit slip. 2 a part of a plant suitable for
grafting ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
give someone the slip to esqape from someone, usu by cunning; let slip to reveal
accidentally; to miss (an opportunity); look slippy (colloq; esp in imperative) to be
quick, to hurry; slip a cable or mooring to let a cable or mooring go overboard ...
