And, of course, it's not as though the Trump campaign suddenly found an unexpected manila folder of information slipped under its door.
The euro, the new currency that was supposed to challenge the almighty dollar for world dominance, has slipped under its rival in value.
So it also remains to be seen how many divisive political ads will simply slip under its radar — i.e. via the non-political, non-verified standard route, and get distributed anyway.
The other great mistletoe planter is the mistle thrush, which defends clumps of the plant from rival thrushes with rattling calls, though blackcaps are small enough to slip under its "radar" to grab a few.
In Pripyat, the plant workers' former bedroom community, a little over a mile from the plant, where 50,000 people were given a few hours to evacuate, wallpaper has slipped down under its own weight and paint has peeled away from apartment walls in fat curls.
We watch one parent penguin turn its egg carelessly, letting it slip out from under its stomach feathers.
He halved it with a knife and slipped the blade under its skin, as if he were shucking an oyster.
But one day last week, after I put the scale precisely one inch away from the chipped floor tile, then slipped a penny under its right corner and stood near the front of it, the scale inexplicably said I weighed four pounds more than usual.
But Guinea slipped into obscurity under its first ruler, Ahmed Sékou Touré, a revolutionary who espoused Marxist policies and mostly shut out the West.
