let slip

釋義

1. 牛津電影裡 100%

   錯過（機會）；失去（機會）

   to miss or fail to use an opportunity

   You're letting him slip through our fingers.

電影裡這樣說 · 4 部

• 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 her slip away.Yesterday2019
• Well, it seems that somebody let slip the nature of my condition.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004
• I let them slip through my fingers.Mulan1998
• How could we let it slip away?Three Kings1999

在完整場景裡學

• 十二怒漢1957
  • 陪審員剛進門：open-and-shut case（一目瞭然的案子）
  • 首輪投票十一比一：kick someone around（受盡欺負）
  • 陪審團圍桌輪流發言：burden of proof（舉證責任）

同一詞條的短語

• 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