Literary notes about SLIP (AI summary)
The word “slip” is employed in literature with remarkable versatility, often shifting its meaning depending on the context. In narrative passages, it can imply a subtle, sometimes secretive movement such as entering a room unnoticed ([1], [2]) or a character departing quietly ([3], [4]), while in other contexts it suggests physical loss of traction or balance, as when someone actually slips and falls ([5], [6]). The term also functions metaphorically, denoting a lapse in judgment or an inadvertent mistake ([7], [8]) and even appears in idiomatic expressions underscoring mishaps or errors, for instance, “many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip” ([9], [10]). Additionally, “slip” designates small inserts or writings on paper ([11], [12]), adding further layers to its literary use.
- (While they were talking, Carus and his sons tried to slip into the banquet, but Justice drove them away.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian - Even now Varvara hardly ever appeared in the drawing-room, but would slip in by a back way.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I stood by a cot and watched a saintly mother slip away to the "undiscovered bourn," and He did not fail me.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. Rees - I told him I must go, but he took no notice, so I thought the best thing I could do was to slip off.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - I slip across the slates and look at her many nights to see that she is safe.
— from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - With an effort I started toward the opening of the cave only to reel drunkenly against a side wall, and from there slip prone upon the floor.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - He had simply babbled on uttering empty phrases, letting slip a few enigmatic words and again reverting to incoherence.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - But that is mere interpretation on your part, based on observations extraneous to the slip.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - 'There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'
— from The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton - There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various - A good-sized, bright, new, brass-bound drum, with a slip of paper on it, with the inscription, 'For RUPERT.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - He put back the slip of paper in its place, and closed the book.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins