slip through one's fingers, to let

slip through someone's fingers

1. Lit. to slide through and out of one's grasp. The glass slipped through his fingers and crashed to the ground. The rope slipped through his fingers and followed the anchor to the bottom of the lake.

2. Fig. to escape from someone; to elude someone's capture or control. The prisoner slipped through the sheriff's fingers. Don't let Max slip through your fingers again this time!

slip through one's fingers, to let

To fail to seize an opportunity. This metaphor has been around since the seventeenth century. Beaumont and Fletcher used it in The Prophetess (1622, 3.2): “Hold her fast, She’ll slip thorow your fingers like an Eel else.”

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释义	slip through one's fingers, to let slip through someone's fingers 1. Lit. to slide through and out of one's grasp. The glass slipped through his fingers and crashed to the ground. The rope slipped through his fingers and followed the anchor to the bottom of the lake. 2. Fig. to escape from someone; to elude someone's capture or control. The prisoner slipped through the sheriff's fingers. Don't let Max slip through your fingers again this time! See also: finger, slip, through McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. slip through one's fingers, to let To fail to seize an opportunity. This metaphor has been around since the seventeenth century. Beaumont and Fletcher used it in The Prophetess (1622, 3.2): “Hold her fast, She’ll slip thorow your fingers like an Eel else.” See also: let, slip, through The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: found count on count on (someone or something) run (one's) fingers through (one's) hair run fingers through hair keep one's fingers crossed, to feel (something) with (something) feel with
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