slip through the net
UK US slip through the cracksto escape a punishment or be missed by a system that should deal with or protect you:
Once again terrorists have slipped through the police net.
There are laws to protect the mentally ill, but now and then someone does slip through the net.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Forgetting and forgetfulness
- absent-minded
- be on the tip of your tongue idiom
- beneath the/sb's radar idiom
- blank
- blank sth out
- blot sth out
- blur
- brain fade
- ear
- go in one ear and out the other idiom
- least
- least said soonest mended idiom
- lose sight of sth idiom 1
- lose sight of sth
- sight
- sink
- slip sb's memory/mind idiom
- take sb's mind off sth idiom
- unlearn
- your mind is a blank/goes blank idiom
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