let slip
Example Sentences
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Guess then let slip that he knew about the messaging by talking about the account.
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Great Britain's joyless start to the Winter Paralympics continued as wheelchair curlers Jo Butterfield and Jason Kean let slip their grasp on the mixed doubles semi-finals and missed out on qualifying.
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All the while, SpaceX apparently let slip its obligations to NASA’s moon effort.
On one occasion, after Mansfield had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and fled to the French Riviera in an attempt to heal, Murry let slip that he had discussed setting up home with his mistress, the aristocratic Dorothy Brett.
She did let slip the relationship when she shouted "stop, Mum!" while the group was frantically paddling a canoe in the first mission - but no-one picked up on it.
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