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let something slip

let something slip verb: to accidentally reveal a secret.

Verb

let something slip (third-person singular simple present lets something slip, present participle letting something slip, simple past and past participle let something slip)

  1. (idiomatic) To accidentally reveal a secret.
    • We were talking about Natalie when I let slip that she was pregnant.

let something slip meaning in Malayalam

let something slip in Malayalam

disclose, reveal, divulge
അറിയാതെ വായിൽനിന്നു വീഴുക, അറിയാതെ പറഞ്ഞു പോകുക, രഹസ്യം വെളിപ്പെടുത്തുക, വിവരം പുറത്തു വിടുക, രഹസ്യം വെളിച്ചത്താക്കുക, പറഞ്ഞുപോവുക

Forms of let something slip

third-person singular presentlets something slip
present participleletting something slip
past participlelet something slip
pastlet something slip

Questions about let something slip

What does let something slip mean?
Let something slip means to accidentally reveal a secret.
What is let something slip in Malayalam?
Let something slip in Malayalam is അറിയാതെ വായിൽനിന്നു വീഴുക, അറിയാതെ പറഞ്ഞു പോകുക, രഹസ്യം വെളിപ്പെടുത്തുക. See Let something slip meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is let something slip?
Let something slip is a verb.
What is the past tense of let something slip?
The past tense of let something slip is let something slip.

Words near let something slip in the dictionary

  1. let someone go
  2. let someone have it
  3. let someone hold
  4. let someone loose
  5. let something ride
  6. let something slip
  7. let that sink in
  8. let the buyer beware
  9. let the cat out
  10. let the cat out of the bag
  11. let the cat out the bag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: let something slip (page history and authors); let something slip (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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