单词 | your slip is showing |
释义 | > as lemmasyour slip is showing P21. your slip is showing: used to give warning to someone thought to be unwittingly exposing a fault, revealing an embarrassing fact, etc. Later also with other nouns, and in allusive variants of the phrase.In the original form sometimes with play on senses 4c and 10 of slip n.3; quot. 1942, which is sometimes consciously echoed in full, is a simple literal use of slip n.3 4c. ΚΠ 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born v. 103 Pardon me, lady, your slip is showing.] 1944 Printers' Ink 3 Mar. 98/3 Obviously, nobody said to these package goods writers, ‘Pardon me, but your technique is showing.’ 1944 Billboard 14 Oct. 10/2 ‘Your slip is showing,’ yelled by a technician at the WABD tele control board is the DuMont boys' way of indicating that the iconoscope is not electrically centered. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 174/2 There were still standards, and hypocrisy, the homage of vice and virtue, was the duty of all public figures. But in a gratifying number of cases the slip showed and the shocked and gratified public learned that ‘Anything Goes’. 1971 C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 33 Your defense mechanisms are showing, Mr. Danziger. 1976 A. Miller Inside Outside vii. 83 I see in you a new broom, though your slip is still showing in places. 1997 ABA Jrnl. Aug. 12/2 Pardon me, but your bigotry is showing. 2014 Calgary Herald (Nexis) 29 May a15 Mr. Mayor and council, your slip is showing. < as lemmas |
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