make a slip of the tongue

He also seemed to make a slip of the tongue.

Just in case someone makes a slip of the tongue."

I felt a pang, as if I'd made a slip of the tongue.

'Every time you make a slip of the tongue, that slip has a meaning.

Perhaps Mr. Clinton made a slip of the tongue.

(Aspen Pittman made a slip of the tongue, but has appeared on record many times as saying what he really meant to say to me.

She mentioned a place called Veido, it was in casual conversation, and she seemed to have made a slip of the tongue.

She explained, "You can't make a slip of the tongue with a linguistic unit if you haven't learned that unit."

Henry: I cannot believe that I have made a slip of the tongue of this magnitude.

Lloyd made a slip of the tongue in English and he hoped that Kuri would pay no attention to the foreign-sounding word.

Nevertheless, his address came off better than it did four years ago, when he made a slip of the tongue before the same convention in Louisville, Ky.

"Some people have said Powell made a slip of the tongue, but I don't think so," Mr. Zhang said.

He made a slip of the tongue on a live TV talkshow (not that he ever answers questions LOL).

Then the earl made a slip of the tongue, and these were the words he spoke: "Then are we full old when these fires are burnt out."

In her speech, Mrs Ek almost made a slip of the tongue: speaking of Parliament's resolution, she almost said revolution.

'Very Tough on Subject' Some politicians here said Mr. Reagan might have made a slip of the tongue because of exhaustion.

The power of the United Nations' suggestion became clear during the deliberations on Wednesday, when Hussein al-Shahristani, the acting speaker and a Shiite, made a slip of the tongue.

In a fifteen minute discussion of North and South Korea, Sarah Palin made a slip of the tongue and said "North" when she meant "South" which she immediately corrected.

Today, Schembechler, the veteran head football coach and first-year athletic director, made a slip of the tongue when he introduced Fisher as "the new head foot- * . . . head basketball coach."

Although there is an urban legend that president Lyndon Johnson made a slip of the tongue in his announcement speech, a look at the original speech he was reading from shows that this is not so.

According to the journalist Lynn Barber, in an interview in 1990 Aspinall made a slip of the tongue that indicated Lord Lucan had remained Aspinall's friend beyond the date of the alleged suicide.

Vice President Bush made a slip of the tongue today when he declared, "Today is Pearl Harbor Day - 47 years ago from this very day we were hit and hit hard at Pearl Harbor."

Ignore now the figure of 4,000, even if United States and Israeli organizations do say that as many 500,000 Soviet Jews want to emigrate; it is possible Mr. Brokaw made a slip of the tongue.

This was clearly the West with respect to the Lartroxian supercontinent, and if Kane had not merely made a slip of the tongue... She wondered how long Kane had lived in the semi-mythical lands beyond the Western Sea.

6 December - While presenting the Radio 4 Today programme, James Naughtie makes a slip of the tongue while referring to the British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt that turns his surname into what the BBC later describes as "an offensive four-letter word".