slip of the pen
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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 Webster, Jean
“That was a slip of the pen; I hope you will excuse it.”
From Jerry Junior by Lowell, Orson
“When I wrote I called you ‘Miss Wilder’; that was a slip of the pen too.
From Jerry Junior by Lowell, Orson
One wonders whether the last "&" was accidentally substituted for the word "or," by a slip of the pen.
From The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Longueville, Thomas
