let slip

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to miss or fail to use an opportunity

   You're letting him slip through our fingers.

In the movies · 4

• You're letting him slip through our fingers.12 Angry Men1957
• Twice now you've let him slip away.Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015
• Maybe he let us slip away. I never heard from him.The Big Chill1983
• But he let slip away.You Don't Mess with the Zohan2008
• I let them slip through my fingers.Mulan1998
• I let her slip away.Yesterday2019
• from Jordan College and then let her slip away.The Golden Compass2007
• Well, it seems that somebody let slip the nature of my condition.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004

Learn it in full scenes

• 12 Angry Men1957
  • Jurors Gather in the Jury Room
  • Juror 8 Votes Not Guilty
  • The Jurors Go Around the Table

From the same entry

• slip your mind
• slip one over on
• slip through the net
• out of gear
• roll off the tongue
• slip away
• slip out
• slip up
• give the slip
• a slip of a boy, girl
• a slip of the pen
• there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip