Slip away

Definition

slip /slÇp/ v ( - pp- ) ၁။ (က) ~ (over ) ( on sth ) (ေျခ)ေခ်ာ္သည္။ The climber's foot slipped, and she fell. ❍ She slipped (over) on the ice and broke her leg. (ခ) ေခ်ာ္သည္။ ေလွ်ာ သည္။ The truck turned sharply, causing its load to slip. ❍ The razor/my hand slipped and I cut my chin. ❍ The straps keep slipping off (my shoulders). သိုင္းႀကိဳးက ပခံုးကေန ေလွ်ာေလွ်ာက်တယ္။ (ဂ) ~ from / out of / through sth ; ~ out/through လြတ္က်သည္။ ေလွ်ာက်သည္။ လြတ္ထြက္သည္။ The fish/vase slipped out of my hand. ❍ He almost caught the ball, but it slipped through his fingers. ❍ The boat slipped (free from) its moorings. ❍ The dog slipped its leash/collar. ❍ ( fig ) The champions could feel the trophy slipping from their grasp (ie because they were losing). ❍ ( fig ) I didn't mean to say that—it just slipped out. ေျပာဖို႔ေတာ့မရည္ရြယ္ပါဘူး၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ လႊတ္ခနဲ ထြက္သြား မိတယ္။ (ဃ) ေခ်ာ္သည္။ The wheels kept slipping on the wet road. ❍ a slipping clutch (ie of a car). ၂။ ~ (into sth) ; ~ (from sth) to sth ေလ်ာ့သည္။ က်ဆင္းသည္။ (ေနာက္)က်သည္။ Safety standards have slipped recently. ❍ The director never lets the film's tension slip. ❍ Share prices rose strongly in the morning, but slipped back in the afternoon. ❍ We've slipped behind schedule. ❍ My bank balance has slipped into the red. ❍ prevent the patient from slipping into unconsciousness ❍ His popularity has slipped a lot. ၃။ သတိ မမူမိ။ သတိမရ။ မစဥ္းစားမိ။ Your request completely slipped my attention. ❍ It had slipped my mind/memory that you were arriving today. ၄။ ( infml often joc ) (only in the continuous tenses) ညံ့လာသည္။ That's three times in a row she's beaten me at tennis—I must be slipping. ၅။ လွ်ဳိ၍ ဝင္လာသည္၊ ထြက္သြားသည္။ လစ္သြားသည္။ The thief slipped out by the back door. ❍ We slipped away to Paris for the weekend. ❍ She's just slipped out of the office for a moment. ❍ The ship slipped into the harbour at night. ❍ ( fig ) This wine slips down very nicely (ie is pleasant to drink). ❍ The years slipped by. ႏွစ္ေတြကုန္မွန္းမသိ ကုန္လြန္ခဲ့သည္။ ၆။ မသိမသာ ထည့္သည္။ slip an envelope into one's pocket ❍ I tried to slip the note to him while the teacher wasn't looking. ❍ I managed to slip a few jokes into my speech. ❍ She opened the door slightly and slipped a newspaper through. ❍ He slipped the waiter a tip. ၇။ ~ into / out of sth ; ~ sth on/off ေကာက္ဝတ္သည္။ ခြၽတ္ပစ္သည္။ slip into/out of a dress ❍ slip one's shoes on/off ❍ slip a shawl over/round one's shoulders. n ၁။ (usu sing ) ေခ်ာ္ျခင္း။ One slip and you could fall off the cliff. တစ္ခ်က္ ေခ်ာ္လိုက္တာနဲ႔ ကမ္းပါးကေန ေအာက္ထဲက် သြားမယ္။ ၂။ ခြၽတ္ေခ်ာ္မႈ။ အေသးအဖြဲမွားယြင္းမႈ။ He recited the whole poem without making a single slip. ❍ There were a few slips in the translation. ❍ One slip and you could lose the game. See also FREUDIAN SLIP ၃။ စာရြက္အတိုအစ။ ျဖတ္ပိုင္း။ a voting/betting slip ❍ write a phone number on a slip of paper ❍ a salary slip (ie giving details of money earned, tax paid, etc). See also PAYSLIP ၄။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအတြင္းခံ သင္တိုင္း (သို႔) အတြင္းခံ စကတ္။ ၅။ (ခရစ္ကက္တြင္) ႐ိုက္လွည့္က်သူ၏ေနာက္ (သို႔) ေဘးတေစာင္းမွ ေဘာလံုးကိုဖမ္းရန္ ေစာင့္သူ။ ယင္းယူထား သည့္ေနရာ။ first/second/third slip ❍ Who is (at) first slip? ❍ a slip fielder/catch ❍ fielding in the slips. ❏ give sb the slip [ IDM ] ( infml ) လိုက္သူကိုလွည့္ပတ္၍ လြတ္ေအာင္ေျပးသည္။ I managed to give him the slip by hiding behind a wall. ❏ let sth slip [ IDM ] ၁။ (အခြင့္အေရး) လက္လႊတ္သည္၊ လက္လြတ္ခံသည္။ She let slip a chance to work abroad. ၂။ လႊတ္ခနဲေျပာမိသည္ (သို႔) စကားရိပ္သန္းသည္။ I didn't let a word slip. ❍ I let (it) slip that I was expecting a baby. ❏ slip away [ PHRV ] (အခြင့္အေရးစသည္) တစ္စတစ္စ လက္လြတ္ဆံုး႐ံႈးသည္။ She could see her chances of victory slipping away. ❏ slip-knot n ကြင္းေလွ်ာ။ ❏ a slip of a boy, girl, etc [ IDM ] ( dated ) ပါးပါးလွပ္လွပ္ လုလင္၊ လံုမေလး။ She's only a slip of a thing, but she can run faster than all of us. ❏ a slip of the pen/tongue [ IDM ] ပမာဒေလခ (သို႔) လႊတ္ခနဲေျပာမိျခင္း။ A slip of the tongue made me say Robert instead of Richard. ❏ slip-on n, adj ကြင္းထိုး(ဖိနပ္)။ ❏ slipped disc n ခါးဆစ္လြဲျခင္း။ ❏ slip-road (also esp US access road ) n အျမန္လမ္းမႀကီး သို႔ဝင္ရန္၊ မွထြက္ရန္ လမ္းခြဲ။ ❏ slip through the net [ IDM ] ကြန္ရက္ကို ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္သည္။ Police have attempted to interview everyone in the area but a few may have slipped through the net. ❏ slip up (on sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ခြၽတ္ေခ်ာ္သည္။ The government slipped up badly in not releasing the documents sooner. See also SLIP-UP ❏ slip-up n ( infml ) နေမာ္နမဲ့အမွား။ ေပါ့တီးေပါ့ဆ အမွား။ ခြၽတ္ေခ်ာ္တိမ္းပါးမႈ။ We cannot afford another slip-up like this one.

Examples

1. Margaret slipped and broke her arm.
2. [slip on] : Be careful you don’t slip on the wet floor.
3. The truck’s wheels were slipping and spinning in the mud.
4. The knife slipped and cut my finger.
5. [slip out of] : The ball slipped out of my hands as I tried to catch it.
6. [slip off] : Tighten the straps so they won’t slip off your shoulders.
7. The boat slipped its moorings and started to drift.
8. [slip etc] : Several people managed to slip past the guards and into the concert.
9. [slip etc] : Sarah slipped into the room and carefully shut the door.
10. [slip something into/around/under etc something] : I’ll slip the letter under your door.
11. [slip something into/around/under etc something] : John slipped his arm around his wife’s waist.
12. Michael slipped the bar of chocolate into his pocket.
13. [slip someone something] : If you slip him some cash he’ll get you good seats.
14. Support for the death penalty has been slipping.
15. Profits slipped by 13% last year.
16. Standards have been slipping over the years.