give somebody the slip

You should know better than to try to give the slip to me.

If I try to give you the slip, you've got me dead on.

But there's too many ways he can give us the slip.

Each morning and afternoon, he had given them the slip.

He put the phone down and gave the slip of paper with the number on it to Smith.

My first job was to give them the slip and that wasn't going to be too easy.

He gave me the slip just as we were starting.

He tried to follow her, but she gave him the slip.

Let night come and he might yet give them the slip.

I thought we'd given them the slip, but they knew right where we were.