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slipped through someone's fingers

slipped through someone's fingers is the simple past and past participle of slip through someone's fingers.

Meaning of slip through someone's fingers

Verb

slip through someone's fingers (third-person singular simple present slips through someone's fingers, present participle slipping through someone's fingers, simple past and past participle slipped through someone's fingers)

  1. To elude someone in the end, despite having almost been achieved or captured.
    • "So you let the German spy slip through your fingers after all," protested Mr Carlyle warmly.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Questions about slipped through someone's fingers

What is slipped through someone's fingers the simple past and past participle of?
Slipped through someone's fingers is the simple past and past participle of slip through someone's fingers.

Words near slipped through someone's fingers in the dictionary

  1. slipped one's wind
  2. slipped out
  3. slipped someone a length
  4. slipped someone's mind
  5. slipped through
  6. slipped through someone's fingers
  7. slipped through the cracks
  8. slipped through the net
  9. slipped under
  10. slipped under the radar
  11. slipped up

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