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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 136. The Verb phrase today is to slip

  • out. Okay. Let's look at the note. Yeah. So we actually have three meanings today. So

  • and we got it like four examples and we'll be covering all the meanings in

  • these examples. So let's look at the first meaning. If someone slips out a

  • piece of information or a remark, he or she mentions it without realizing it. They

  • didn't mean to say it, but they just let it kind of fall out of their mouth. They

  • weren't supposed to say it or you know they usually they would do it by

  • accident. Number two. To escape or leave from a

  • place quietly or in secret. Maybe you just want to slip out so somebody

  • doesn't see leaving or so you don't have to tell somebody about something. Or

  • number three. To quickly or delicately remove some clothing. Maybe you could

  • also slip out of some clothes. All right. Good. So let's look at example

  • number one. Your daughter let this secret about the surprise party

  • slip out. Yeah. So you can often let a secret slip out. You say it accidentally

  • or you didn't mean to say it but somehow it came out of your mouth. You let it

  • slip out. Number two. I'll try to slip out of work a little early, so we can leave

  • sooner. So of course this follows the one where you're trying to escape or

  • leave from a place quietly or in secret. Yeah. If it's at work maybe you're

  • supposed to wait till five o'clock. If you slip it out a little early and then

  • maybe she's leaving about ten minutes early fifteen minutes early. It's

  • probably a place where you don't have a time card. So maybe she could get away

  • with doing this. All right. Well, let's look at the third one here. This party is boring.

  • Let's slip out. If Milly later asks what happened, I'll tell her we left or I left

  • early because I didn't feel well. Okay. So in this case, maybe you're at a friend's

  • party. It's very boring. Maybe you don't want to tell the friend that...

  • you know or make up some excuse at that time and face her that you're leaving

  • early. So you don't tell her. You just slip out. You just get out because then maybe

  • they'll say "oh no stay. Why are you going ? Stay. Why are you leaving so early.? You

  • know, they may have to go through that . They don't want to do that. They just want to

  • slip out and then later on, if the friend asks you know, Hey what happened to

  • you ? I didn't see you for a while. Oh, I didn't feel well. So we just

  • left early , but anyway this is what we mean by to slip out. So try to do it quietly or

  • in secret. Okay. Good and the last example we have here. Let me slip out of these

  • work clothes and put on something more comfortable.

  • Yeah. We often see this. We see this in the movies a lot , especially in romantic

  • scenes. Maybe the woman she wants to slip out of some clothes. Maybe she is going to

  • put on some sexy clothes. But really, it could be anything. You could just slip

  • out of your clothes and put on , just like we say here , something more

  • comfortable. Maybe you just want to put on some sweatpants and a T-shirt. But you

  • want to slip out. So you want to take off the old clothes and put on the new

  • clothes. Usually like they say kind of either

  • quickly or in a kind of a delicate way. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear.

  • Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 136. The Verb phrase today is to slip

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