slip up
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Verb
[edit]slip up (third-person singular simple present slips up, present participle slipping up, simple past and past participle slipped up)
- (idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
- I hope I don't slip up during my presentation.
- 2023 September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, in NK News[1]:
- The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials who slip up.
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[edit]to make a mistake
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