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there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip is the alternative form of there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

Meaning of there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

Proverb

there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

  1. (dated) In any situation, however well planned, something can always go wrong.
    • Many thynges fall betwene the cuppe and the mouth.[1539, Erasmus, “Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaq[ue] labra”, in Richard Taverner, transl., Proverbes or Adagies with Newe Addicions Gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus […], London: […]...

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There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip is the alternative form of there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

Words near there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip in the dictionary

  1. there's been an accident
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  3. there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
  4. there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
  5. there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
  6. there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
  7. there's more than one way to cook an egg
  8. there's more than one way to crack an egg
  9. there's more than one way to feed a cat
  10. there's more than one way to fuck a cat
  11. there's more than one way to peel an orange

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