| 词汇 | a slip of the tongues |
| 释义 | (redirected from a slip of the tongues)slip of the tongueA small mistake made when speaking. I accidentally called John by his brother's name. It was just a slip of the tongue. The news anchor's innocent slip of the tongue has gone viral, of course. slip of the tonguean error in speaking in which a word is pronounced incorrectly, or in which the speaker says something unintentionally. I didn't mean to tell her that. It was a slip of the tongue. I failed to understand the instructions because the speaker made a slip of the tongue at an important point. a slip of the tongueA slip of the tongue is something that you said by mistake. At one stage he referred to her as James's `fiancée' but later said that was a slip of the tongue and that they were not formally engaged. a slip of the ˈtongue/ˈpena small mistake when speaking or writing: Did I say North Street? Sorry, that was a slip of the tongue — I meant South Street. |
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