And Popovich calls a timeout because he can see his team's title hopes slipping here.
Then four more to third man; West Indies have let it slip here.
But with polls showing Mr. Obama's approval ratings slipping here, Republicans, including Virginia's governor, say a repeat of his 2008 victory is increasingly unlikely.
The Raiders are too physical and too sure of themselves to slip here, even on the road, against a team full of holes from top to bottom.
They slid down the embankment on their bottoms, then picked their way across the stream on a path of loose stones, slipping here and there so that their canvas sneakers filled with icy water.
Some might say that Johnny's attitude is slipping here ("Teeth, darling, teeth!") but I suspect his grumpy mien is more about posing in front of such an unchic door as opposed to his far more stylish truck.
But when it is a narrative of an experience in the Cultural Revolution, "One Man's Bible" slips here and there into what has by now become a familiar set of scenes -- the jargon-choked meetings, the vocabulary and discourse of the Communist party nomenklatura -- that weakens its narrative power.
Slipping here without the means of self-arrest is often a fatal mistake.
But absent political leadership, America could slip here, and rather quickly, if certain tipping points (read Obamacare) are passed.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce: "The way we have let leads slip here easily, the 1-0 was a fantastic victory for us, because it was a difficult game.
We knew that if we slipped up here then it was going to be very difficult from here on in, so we were playing with a bit of fear, which always makes it a bit better".
