slip of the pen
Example Sentences
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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."
From Time Magazine Archive
‘That was a slip of the pen; I hope you will excuse it.’
From Jerry by Jean Webster
I remarked that, but considered it a mere slip of the pen.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
This might easily have been a slip of the pen or a printer's mistake for 1488 or 1489, and subsequent passages in the life bear out this supposition.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
But that was a slip of the pen, merely.
From The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Andrew Lang
