"Slip" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 huá to slip / to slide / slippery / smooth / sly / slippery / not to be trusted
 shī shǒu a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated
 shī zú to lose one's footing / to slip / to take a wrong step in life
 shū lòu to slip / to overlook by negligence / careless omission / oversight
 dǎ huá to skid / to slip / to slide
 cuō tuó (literary) to slip / (of looks etc) to fade away / (of time) to slip away / to squander (time, opportunities) / to dillydally
 huá dǎo to slip (lose one's footing)
 huá yí to slip / to drift
 chū liu to slip / to slide
 cuō to error / to slip / to miss / to err
 dā to stumble / to slip / variant of 達|达[da2]
 lèng to stumble / to slip / to fall
 piān huá jiǎo slip
 dǎ liè qie to trip / to miss a step / to slip
 zhuǎn chā to slip (e.g. of clutch) / slippage / also used of economic indicators, statistical discrepancies etc
 fàng guò to let off / to let slip by / to let sb get away with sth
 shuāi dǎo to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
 zhǐ tiáo slip of paper
 tuō kǒu ér chū to blurt out / to let slip (an indiscreet remark)
 liū zǒu to slip away / to leave secretly
 bǎo dān guarantee slip
 fáng huá antiskid / slip resistant
 tiáo zi short note / slip of paper / stripe / (slang) cop / (old) prostitute
穿 chuān bāng (TV or movie) blooper / continuity error / (theater) to flub one's lines / unintended exposure of a body part / to be exposed (of a scheme or trick) / to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue / to blow one's cover
 jiā dài to carry within it / to be mixed in / to slip sth in / to intersperse / (hydrology etc) to entrain / to smuggle / notes smuggled into an exam
 lòu diào to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away
 kāi liū to leave in stealth / to slip away
 huá chū to slip out
 shī yán slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
 shī zhī jiāo bì to miss narrowly / to let a great opportunity slip
 xià yào to prescribe medicine / to poison / to slip a drug (into sb's drink etc)
 zhú qiān bamboo skewer / bamboo slip used in divination or gambling
 rěn rǎn (literary) (of time) to slip away
 bǐ wù a slip of a pen / CL:處|处[chu4]
 shī chá to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through
 shī kǒu slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
 Hàn jiǎn bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty
 cuò mistake / wrong / bad / interlocking / complex / to grind / to polish / to alternate / to stagger / to miss / to let slip / to evade / to inlay with gold or silver
 liū to slip away / to escape in stealth / to skate
 tùn to slip out of sth / to hide sth in one's sleeve
 liāo to run / to slip away / to stride
 méng hùn guò guān to get away with it / to slip through / to bluff one's way out / Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1]
 yī niàn zhī chā momentary slip / false step / ill-considered action
 yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
 yán duō bì shī if you say too much, you're bound to slip up at some point (idiom)
 zǒu zuǐ a slip of the tongue / to blurt out (a secret or stupid mistake)
 jiè shū dān book slip
 zhǔ shú de yā zi fēi le the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
 wō to slip and sprain a limb
 jiāo kuǎn dān payment slip
 zuò shī to let sth slip by / to miss an opportunity
 sāi gěi to slip sb sth / to press sb to accept sth / to insert surreptitiously / to foist sth off on sb
 shī yǔ to let slip / loss of speech (e.g. as a result of brain damage) / aphasia
 yǔ shī indiscreet remark / indiscretion / slip of the tongue
 shuō lòu zuǐ to blurt out / to let slip
 huá huán slip ring / collector ring (electrical engineering)
 shuō liū zuǐ to make a slip of the tongue
 pāi pāi pì gu zǒu rén to make oneself scarce / to slip away / to take French leave
 shǒu huá to do sth by mistake (with one's hand) / to make a slip of the hand (e.g. click the wrong button)
 tiào dǎng (of a car) to slip out of gear / to pop out of gear
 lòu shī to lose sth due to leakage / to let sth slip through / a slip-up / an oversight
尿 niào dùn (slang) pretext of needing to urinate (used to slip away to avoid having to do sth)
 là kòng to omit / to neglect (to do sth) / to miss a chance / to let an opportunity slip by
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