slip away

Meaning

1. Editorial43% of films

   to get free from someone who is chasing, holding, or watching you

2. Editorial14% of films

   to leave a place quietly so that other people do not notice

3. Oxford14% of films

   to stop existing; to disappear or die

In the movies · 11

• - You let Haldeman slip away. - Yes.All the President's Men1976
• He slipped away again in Jakarta,Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015
• Then, somewhere along the line, it slipped away.Husbands and Wives1992
• But he let slip away.You Don't Mess with the Zohan2008
• Creed manages to slip awayCreed II2018
• Let me just slip away.The Pink Panther2006
• I let her slip away.Yesterday2019
• How could we let it slip away?Three Kings1999

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story
• Husbands and Wives1992
  • Jack and Sally Announce a Split
  • Gabe and Judy's Late-Night Talk
  • Sally Calls Jack During a Date

From the same entry

• let slip
• let slip
• slip your mind
• slip one over on
• slip through the net
• out of gear
• roll off the tongue
• slip out
• slip up
• give the slip
• a slip of a boy, girl
• a slip of the pen