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Slip of the tongue   /slɪp əv ðə təŋ/   Listen
Slip of the tongue

noun
1.
An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking.





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"Slip of the tongue" Quotes from Famous Books



... is said that Major Drayton, hearing of his neighbor's serious illness, rode over to make inquiry about him, and owing to a slip of the tongue, asked in a voice of deepest sympathy, "Any hopes ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... Hal, between his hands. Then, by a slip of the tongue, and wholly innocent of any ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... Lydia. "I should hope not! My first evening with her! To share it with anybody! Except her father, of course!" He added the last as an afterthought, more with the air of putting the Judge at his ease than of excusing himself for an ungraceful slip of the tongue. ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield


Words linked to "Slip of the tongue" :   misstatement, spoonerism


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