slip up en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
I hope I don't slip up during my presentation.
The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials who slip up.
2023 September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, in NK News:Somebody slipped up and forgot to put your name on the guest list.
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To lose ones footing; to slip.
[…]when we witness someone caught up in their own self-importance slip up on a banana peel, we come to a more humble idea of who we are; comedy, in such a formulation, is on the side of human finitude.
2021 April 23, John Currie, chapter 5, in Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World, page 135:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| slipped up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slipped up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| slipping up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slips up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
sv tabba sig (to make a mistake) · bg допускам грешка (to make a mistake) · es dar un paso en falso (to make a mistake) · it impappinarsi (to make a mistake)