slip of the pen
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English
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Noun
[edit]slip of the pen (plural slips of the pen)
- (idiomatic) A mistake in handwriting.
- Synonyms: lapsus calami, writo
- 1961 December, “New reading on railways: The South Eastern & Chatham Railway. By O. S. Nock”, in Trains Illustrated, page 768:
- There are one or two slips of the pen—L.S.W.R. trains did not run through Ludgate Hill, for instance—[...].
Translations
[edit]mistake in handwriting
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[edit]References
[edit]- “slip of the pen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.