slip up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toerr,falter; to make amistake, especially a seemingly small error.I hope I don'tslip upduring my presentation.2023September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, inNK News‎[1]:The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials whoslip up.; To lose onesfooting; toslip.2021April 23, John Currie, chapter 5, inSound and Affect: Voice, Music, World‎[2], page135:[…]when we witness someone caught up in their own self-importanceslip upon a banana peel, we come to a more humble idea of who we are; comedy, in such a formulation, is on the side of human finitude.

Examples:

EN: Oh, gee, a girl's got a right to slip up once in a while.
ES: Caramba, una chica tiene derecho a un desliz.
EN: What we'll do, we'll spend this afternoon going over this thing from A to Z so there won't be any chance of a slip up.
ES: Lo que haremos esta tarde será repasarlo todo de la A" a la "Z". No habrá posibilidad de error.
EN: Listen, Lily, when you come home, slip up the back way.
ES: Escucha, Lily, cuando vengas a casa, deslízate por la parte de atrás.
EN: Only hope Stogie didn't slip up on his end.
ES: Sólo espero que Stogie no meta la pata.
EN: He knows better than to slip up.
ES: Por la cuenta que le trae.
EN: Now please remember that the greatest scientists sometimes slip up with their experiments.
ES: Presten atención sólo un momento.
EN: Yeah, you don't want to slip up on that angle.
ES: No cometerás un error.
EN: Anything should slip up there, we'd be up the crick.
ES: Algo podría ir mal, estaríamos en apuros.
EN: Nothing's going to slip up.
ES: Nadie está metiendo la pata.
EN: You didn't slip up on a thing did you.
ES: No metió la pata en nada, ¿eh?
EN: I never knew Doc Saunders to slip up like this before. Morning, gents.
ES: El Dr. Saunders nunca había metido la pata de esta manera.
EN: But if you slip up this time, Cornell... it's curtains to a brilliant career.
ES: Pero si te equivocas, Cornell... deberás despedirte de tu brillante carrera.
EN: Until now, they made no mistakes but they might slip up.
ES: Hasta ahora no han cometido errores, pero pueden descuidarse.
EN: What if there's no slip up?
ES: ¿Y si no se descuidan?
EN: Why'd you give them the slip up at the hospital?
ES: ¿Por qué se ha marchado del hospital?

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