slip-up

slip-up englannista suomeksi

1. kömmähdys

0. Substantiivi

slip-up englanniksi

1. A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.

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2. (quote-journal)|month=November|year=1839|volume=II|issue=4|page=60|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWM9AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA60|column=1|oclc=903444236|passage=The door step was a broad unhewn rock, brought from the neighboring pasture. It had not a flat and even surface, but was considerably sloping from the door to the road, so that in icy times the scholars in passing out used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasures of a slide. But look out for a slip-up, ye careless, for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before.|brackets=on

3. (quote-book)|year=1867|pages=368–369|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3gbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA368|oclc=3302955|passage=Fearing to advance upon unknown grounds lest he might meet with some of those slip-ups which kill an orator dead, he waits until the question, proposed by others, has become well set forth; then, having a clear perception of the subject, he enters the lists and conducts the attack by a well-known process at the bar—that of assailing the weakest point of the enemy.

4. (quote-book)|chapter=The Miller and His Men|title=Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=G. W. Carleton & Co., publishers; London: Low|Sampson Low, Son, & Co.|year=1867|page=166|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfRFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA166|column=2|oclc=54145374|passage=Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies. He was caught 'the queer|shoving the queer' in Newark and New York.

5. (quote-journal), by the students of (w); press of John Wilson and Son|date=13 March 1867|volume=III|issue=I|page=5|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXIEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA5|column=1|oclc=1013324939|passage=The chess-player also has need of a quick eye and a steady nerve; ... However, the self-possession which he requires is to be distinguished from freedom from the momentary nervous excitement which causes so many "slip-ups" in billiards.

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7. (quote-book), Eighty-fifth States Congress|Congress, First Session on the Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States: (...) Part 66(nb...)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|date=8 February 1957|page=4111|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=viM3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA4111|oclc=189597160|passage=And I went to the cemetery and I had the guide check the names, all of the names, I did not want any slipup.

8. (quote-book)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office|date=26 June 1964|page=1923|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dQJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1923|oclc=3350315|passage=That was a slip-up on the part of the committee. Everyone makes a mistake, and gentlemen, I hope you will not make that mistake again. Personally, I rather doubt that he Howard Tillotson would have appeared in executive session even if this slip-up had not occurred, and the fact of the matter is that he did not avail himself of the opportunity when the time came.

9. (quote-journal)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jun/29/roger-federer-wimbledon-2012-julien-benneteau|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115072742/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jun/29/roger-federer-wimbledon-2012-julien-benneteau|archivedate=15 November 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 June 2012|passage=For the second year in a row at Wimbledon, (w) went to five sets against a Frenchman but this time there would be no slip-ups.