slip through sb's fingers
If you allow an opportunity or a person to slip through your fingers, you lose it, him, or her through not taking care or making an effort:
You shouldn't let a job/man like that slip through your fingers!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and loss
- astray
- black hole
- disappear
- forfeit
- get to
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose
- lose your way idiom
- loss
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- slip away
- stray
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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