slip up
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb[edit]
slip up (third-person singular simple present slips up, present participle slipping up, simple past and past participle slipped up)
- (idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
- I hope I don't slip up during my presentation.
- 2023 September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, in NK News[1]:
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make a mistake
|