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 Jean Webster
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
And, note, last of all, about this matter, the singular grammatical irregularity in my text, which is something much more than a mere blunder or slip of the pen.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
One knows in general that if one finds a slip of the pen in a letter everything was not as usual with the writer.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
