there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

English

Alternative forms

• there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

Etymology

See the detailed Wikipedia article on the ancient proverb.

Proverb

there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

1. In any situation, however well planned, something can always go wrong.

Translations

in any situation something can always go wrong

• Catalan: de prometre a complir hi ha molt a dir, de prometre a complir hi ha molt tros per penedir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: moni asia voi mennä pieleen
• French: il y a loin de la coupe aux lèvres (fr)
• German: man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben (de), freu dich nicht zu früh
• Greek: please add this translation if you can

  Ancient: ^{(please verify)} πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου (pollà metaxù pélei kúlikos kaì kheíleos ákrou)

• Italian: tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il mare
• Japanese: 油断大敵 (ja) (ゆだんたいてき, yudantaiteki)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra
• Russian: не говори́ «гоп», пока́ не перепры́гнешь (ne govorí «gop», poká ne pereprýgnešʹ) (don't say "hop!" before you (managed to) jump over (it))
• Scottish Gaelic: na cuir do làmh eadar a' chlach is an sgrath (literally “don't put your hand between the stone and the turf”), eadar long is laimhrig (literally “between ship and quay”)
• Spanish: de la mano a la boca desaparece la sopa, del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho