What is Slipped Out?
1.
An unintentional mistake. Something that one didn't QUITE mean to say, or do.
"Having a lovely holiday here in the country," Ethel wrote on the postcard to her cousin, "'tho I'm rudely woken up by the farmer's cock each morning."
"Ooh," she thought suddenly, just as she heard the crisp missive hit the bottom of the post-box, "THAT just slipped out! Perhaps I should have put it another way."
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"Having a lovely holiday here in the country," Ethel wrote on the postcard to her cousin, "'tho I'm rudely woken up by the farmer's cock each morning."
"Ooh," she thought suddenly, just as she heard the crisp missive hit the bottom of the post-box, "THAT just slipped out! Perhaps I should have put it another way."
