Afterward, several students said they felt more comfortable making a slip-up in the relative anonymity of cyberspace than in a crowded classroom.
It was Christine C. Quinn's grandmother, not mother, who survived the Titanic, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg realized after making a slip-up during a visit to Northern Ireland with Ms. Quinn, the City Council speaker, and other city officials.
If Mr. Sisi makes a slip-up on television, there will unfailingly be a flurry of mocking memes flying about on Facebook within hours.
Yet in the early hours of Friday morning as he celebrated in the street with hundreds of young supporters, Galloway made a slip-up which would suggest to any practising Muslim that he was not one of them: he invited them to join him at noon for a tour of Bradford on an open-top bus.
Months later, in October, Altoid appeared again - but made a slip-up, granting investigators a major lead.
You don't want to make a slip-up, and these first leg matches are always cagey affairs.
Yet he survived his grilling without making a fatal slip-up; Diamond himself refused to pin the blame on him; and the deputy governor continues to be valued for his rare blend of central banking experience and City nous.
A CEO with a superb record of running a giant industrial firm says that a slip up would make him vulnerable.
It was also quite expensive—I think we spent about $1,300 on sand and polyvinyl so we could cover our floors and also make a slip n' slide, which ended up being about 50 feet long, down our hallway.
After Sanders repeated the insinuation in response to a follow-up question, Clinton made a slip: she cited her work rebuilding Ground Zero as a senator from New York, appearing to invoke the 9/11 attack on Lower Manhattan as a justification for accepting campaign donations from Wall Street.
