slip away
— phrasal verb with slip uk/slɪp/us/slɪp/verb -pp-
C2 to leave secretly:
He slipped away while we were all sleeping.
C2 If a period of time slips away, it passes quickly:
Time was slipping away and she had to make a decision soon.
C2 If someone's power or the possibility of someone winning or achieving something slips away, it disappears:
Political power was really in their hands and they let it slip away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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