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slips through someone's fingers

slips through someone's fingers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 slips through someone's fingers

What is slips through someone's fingers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Slips through someone's fingers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slip through someone's fingers.

Words near slips through someone's fingers in the dictionary

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

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