slip of the pen
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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Affection" she'll feel for me "ever," But stay—if that blot is an "n" It turns it at once into "never," Or is it a slip of the pen?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various
Possibly this writer made a slip of the pen, and, meaning Patria, wrote Pavia—or did the printer's devil make the blunder?
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
This might easily have been a slip of the pen or a printer's mistake for 1488 or 1489, and subsequent passages in the life bear out this supposition.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
It is clear that "presumed" is a slip of the pen; it should have been condescended.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
