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

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

  1. Alternative form of there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
    • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xi:
      With the blessings of my elders, I started for Bombay. This was my first journey from Rajkot to Bombay. My brother accompanied me. But there is many a slip, twixt the cup and the lip. There were difficulties to be faced in Bombay.
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