slip away

== English == === Verb === slip away (third-person singular simple present slips away, present participle slipping away, simple past and past participle slipped away) To leave without being noticed. Synonyms: slide off, slip off, sneak off 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, But when Bobbie crept down later to bring up her presents--for she felt she really could not be separated from them all night--Mother was not writing, but leaning her head on her arms and her arms on the table. I think it was rather good of Bobbie to slip quietly away, saying over and over, "She doesn't want me to know she's unhappy, and I won't know; I won't know." But it made a sad end to the birthday. (of time) To pass quickly, almost unnoticed. To disappear; to elude one; to recede; to dwindle. Coordinate terms: fade away, fall away (euphemistic) To die peacefully. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== give someone the slip