give the slip
Example Sentences
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With or without Ismail's aid, with or without his enmity, he must control his eighty men and give the slip to the mullah, and he went at once about the best way to do both.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
It is said that on one occasion he managed even to give the slip to Claverhouse himself, which, you know, is not easy.”
From Hunted and Harried by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Do you write word, what number you would be; and setting aside business, through the back-door give the slip to your client who keeps guard in your court.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
"The lobby doors are open wide, And if I don't get in, But give the slip to our stern Whip, Just won't there be a din!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various
But it was not easy to give the slip to a man whose knuckly hand held him like a vice.
From The Big Otter by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
