let slip | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Todivulgeasecret, as byaccidentormistake.It waslet slipthat they were planning to take over the business.1909December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, inSouth Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company, published October 1911,→OCLC,page61:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries bylettingthe wordslipout that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.; (UK,slang,obsolete)Tolet fly; to attack or challenge someone.1862, Thomas Hood, John Clubbe, Tom Hood,Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse. Edited, with Notes, page263:I would take it kind of your worship to let me be present at his examination, that if he clear himself of one murder I maylet slipat him with the other.

Examples:

EN: Melitta let slip that you're a well-known poet...
ES: Melitta insinuó que es Ud. un famoso poeta...
EN: Dante. Don't for heaven's sake let slip to Greg that you saw me here.
ES: No le digas a Greg que me encontraste aquí.
EN: When did I ever let slip 15 thalers?
ES: ¿Cuándo dejé pasar 15 dalers?
EN: Gracie let slip a remark to the effect there was nothing of value in this bag.
ES: Eso es. Gracie hizo un comentario indicando que no hay nada de valor en esta maleta.
EN: What I like, I do not let slip from me.
ES: No me alejo de lo que me gusta.
EN: A hundred times during the proceedings that followed .. I could have interposed my confession. But to my confused mind the chance I had let slip seemed lost forever.
ES: "En numerosas ocasiones durante le juicio pude confesar, pero en mi mente confusa, había dejado escapar mi ocasión.
EN: It was only by chance that he let slip the fact the other day that his ancestors, the Ferraros, ...were once the biggest land-owners in Torquorolla.
ES: Fue casualidad que el otro día comentara que sus antepasados, los Ferraro, fueron terratenientes en Torquorolla.
EN: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a monarch's voice cry "Havoc!" And let slip the dogs of war.
ES: Y el espíritu de César... buscando venganza, vendrá del infierno junto con Ate... y aquí, con la voz de un rey, gritará: "¡Caos!"... y soltará a los perros de la guerra.
EN: - No, she probably let slip it!
ES: - ¡Se habrá escapado!
EN: If I let slip mine!
ES: ¡Si escapa a mi...!
EN: Carmelina, go to Angela's home. Tell them they mustn't take offense if we let slip a few insults.
ES: Carmelina, ve a casa de Ángela... y dile qué si los insultamos, no deben ofenderse.
EN: I beg you, don't let slip a word about us two!
ES: Por favor, que no se escape ningún comentario sobre nosotros.
EN: Mr. De Talleyrand will not let slip this opportunity to give us his opinion on the Emperor?
ES: M. De Tayllerand no dejará pasar la oportunidad de damos su opinión sobre el Emperador.
EN: # Sure, but slip and let slip
ES: Claro, pero tropieza y deja tropezar.
EN: What would let slip if you got drunk?
ES: ¿Qué pasaría si se emborrachara?

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