"slip off someone's tongue" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: slips off someone's tongue [present, singular, third-person], slipping off someone's tongue [participle, present], slipped off someone's tongue [participle, past], slipped off someone's tongue [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} slip off someone's tongue (third-person singular simple present slips off someone's tongue, present participle slipping off someone's tongue, simple past and past participle slipped off someone's tongue)
  1. to misspeak, to make a slip of the tongue
    Sense id: en-slip_off_someone's_tongue-en-verb-abXAUsnM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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