"slip through the cracks" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-slip through the cracks.ogg Forms: slips through the cracks [present, singular, third-person], slipping through the cracks [participle, present], slipped through the cracks [participle, past], slipped through the cracks [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=slip through the cracks}} slip through the cracks (third-person singular simple present slips through the cracks, present participle slipping through the cracks, simple past and past participle slipped through the cracks)
  1. (idiomatic) To escape notice or lack sufficient attention. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: slip through the net, fall through the cracks Translations (to escape notice): door de mazen van het net glippen (Dutch), jäädä huomaamatta (Finnish), livahtaa (Finnish), passer entre les mailles du filet (French), durch das Raster fallen (German), umykać [imperfective] (Polish), umknąć [perfective] (Polish), colarse por las rendijas (Spanish), falla mellan två stolar (Swedish), falla mellan stolarna (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic) To escape notice or lack sufficient attention."
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          "sense": "to escape notice",
          "word": "door de mazen van het net glippen"
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          "sense": "to escape notice",
          "word": "jäädä huomaamatta"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to escape notice",
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          "sense": "to escape notice",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to escape notice",
          "word": "durch das Raster fallen"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to escape notice",
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          "sense": "to escape notice",
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to escape notice",
          "word": "colarse por las rendijas"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to escape notice",
          "word": "falla mellan två stolar"
        },
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to escape notice",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "door de mazen van het net glippen"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "jäädä huomaamatta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "livahtaa"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "passer entre les mailles du filet"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "durch das Raster fallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "umykać"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "umknąć"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "colarse por las rendijas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "falla mellan två stolar"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to escape notice",
      "word": "falla mellan stolarna"
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