英语词汇“let something slip”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

let something slip

1Reveal something inadvertently in the course of a conversation: [with clause]: Clive had let slip he was married...

In writing of the Jewish mystic Simone Weil, she inadvertently let the truth slip out, ‘An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth.’
But it would have been easy to let it slip inadvertently.
If you tell people they can get free stuff by dialing into a top-secret Web site, they're bound to let that information slip into a conversation with friends.

Synonyms

reveal, disclose, divulge, let out, give away, come out with, blurt out, leak;

give the game away

informal let on, blab, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans

British informal blow the gaff

archaic discover

2 archaic Release a hound from the leash so as to begin the chase: let slip the dogs of war...

At this time we could not move or lift our heads for fear of being seen, but had to wait till the deer had passed the rocks amongst which we were concealed, that we might let slip the hounds at a distance of about thirty or forty yards.
As soon as the huntsman finds a gin uprooted he will let slip his hounds and with cheery encouragement follow along the wake of the wooden clog, with a keen eye to the direction of its march.

See parent entry: slip

单词	let something slip
释义	let something slip 1Reveal something inadvertently in the course of a conversation: [with clause]: Clive had let slip he was married... In writing of the Jewish mystic Simone Weil, she inadvertently let the truth slip out, ‘An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth.’ But it would have been easy to let it slip inadvertently. If you tell people they can get free stuff by dialing into a top-secret Web site, they're bound to let that information slip into a conversation with friends. Synonyms reveal, disclose, divulge, let out, give away, come out with, blurt out, leak; give the game away informal let on, blab, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans British informal blow the gaff archaic discover 2 archaic Release a hound from the leash so as to begin the chase: let slip the dogs of war... At this time we could not move or lift our heads for fear of being seen, but had to wait till the deer had passed the rocks amongst which we were concealed, that we might let slip the hounds at a distance of about thirty or forty yards. As soon as the huntsman finds a gin uprooted he will let slip his hounds and with cheery encouragement follow along the wake of the wooden clog, with a keen eye to the direction of its march. See parent entry: slip
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