"let slide" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-let slide.ogg [Australia] Forms: lets slide [present, singular, third-person], letting slide [participle, present], let slide [participle, past], let slide [past]
Etymology: From Middle English leten sliden (“to disregard, put aside, let pass, neglect”), equivalent to let + slide. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|leten sliden|t=to disregard, put aside, let pass, neglect}} Middle English leten sliden (“to disregard, put aside, let pass, neglect”), {{com|en|let|slide|nocat=1}} let + slide Head templates: {{en-verb|let<,,let> slide}} let slide (third-person singular simple present lets slide, present participle letting slide, simple past and past participle let slide)
  1. (transitive, of intangibles) To let go, allow, release, pass over without action. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Thinking Translations (to let pass): mennä (Finnish), (neopaženo) miniti (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-let_slide-en-verb-NNVyhJ0F Disambiguation of Thinking: 58 13 10 9 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 16 5 19 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 41 18 7 28 6 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 45 22 7 20 6 Disambiguation of 'to let pass': 61 9 4 10 16
  2. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
    Sense id: en-let_slide-en-verb-njIztMCY
  3. (transitive, of persons) To tolerate a violation of a norm from. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-let_slide-en-verb-9y17nV2A
  4. (idiomatic) To allow the condition of something to deteriorate due to negligence or apathy. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-let_slide-en-verb-YLCwLsPK
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, slide.
    Sense id: en-let_slide-en-verb-P4aP5nJb

Inflected forms

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