单词 | to slip through the net |
释义 | > as lemmasto slip through the net c. to slip through the net: to evade detection or apprehension; to escape someone's vigilance; to be overlooked. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > escape from threat > escape unperceived to give (one) the slip1567 to slip through the net1902 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > omit doing or to do something through carelessness > commit an oversight > be overlooked to go by defaulta1638 to slip through the net1902 1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession p. xviii Nothing can really shake the confidence of the public in the Lord Chamberlain's department except a remorseless and unbowdlerized narration of the licentious fictions which slip through its net. 1970 Times 21 Feb. 7/5 All those in the ‘know’ in the underworld..maintain that it was a man who was never on trial but who slipped through the net. 1977 M. Drabble Ice Age i. 67 The real poor..were better off than they would have been in the thirties, for Britain is, after all, a welfare state, and not many slip through its net. < as lemmas |
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