slip of the pen
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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."
From Time Magazine Archive
This last error, indeed, can scarcely be more than a slip of the pen.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
He scarcely noticed the mistake at the conclusion: the dowager had doubtless intended to imply that he was wicked, and the slip of the pen in her temper went for nothing.
From Elster's Folly by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A mistake of appointment, almost a slip of the pen, and a man may be in charge who will make life unendurable as only unlimited authority can.
From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)
A casual observer might have imagined a slip of the pen in this last word, but the girls knew better.
From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy
