slips up

When a female candidate slips up, she should respond succinctly and then introduce third-party validators, said Carpenter.

During winter he is the snow-white ermine, and in white easily slips up over the snow unseen.

We have a quadrille, in which an English person slips up and jams his massive brow against my stomach.

He'd hardly gone when Vee slips up beside me and touches me on the arm.

Smart and gritty—if I had her stick I shouldn't be here—but she always slips up—can't keep all her wires well in hand.

A blackbird slips up into the oak and a dove descends in the corner by the chestnut tree.