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Let slip
verb
To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake.
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Among the "secrets" they let slip?
He let slip some very un-Miller like comments.
He let slip a sliver of a smile.
What else, I wondered, had I let slip?
let slip the leash, and it becomes something monstrous".
He did let slip one specific detail, though.
Old-timers let slip a "Miamah" instead of Miami.
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the pizza rats of war!
Cry havoc and let slip the Orcs of war!
Later still, he let slip a further significant detail.
One we let slip into a bus-sconductor's dime machine.
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