slip of the pen

A slip of the pen, and now look at me."

Surely "cage" must have been a slip of the pen.

Yet it is a revealing slip of the pen.

This was not just a slip of the pen."

Both signatures show a unique slip of the pen when starting the "H".

In this determination he made a mistake, possibly a slip of the pen, putting the stars 10 times too close.

"You have to keep your eye on every word of legislation because a slip of the pen can cost the city millions," she said.

He exploited slips of the pen.

A slip of the pen, a misheard response, a purposeful deception on the part of my grandfather?

"Slips of the pen" happen more often than we might suppose and certainly do not necessarily indicate carelessness, idleness or ignorance.

Even at the best regulated check-in counters, a slip of the pen can send your goods and chattels off to parts unknown.

"A little slip of the pen," Blackey sighed.

Mr President, I would like to correct an apparent slip of the pen by means of an oral amendment.

The text has 'at the S.W. corner', but this was a slip of the pen.

"A Slip of the Pen" (7 February 1994)

"Just a slip of the pen in the 18th century can set us in the wrong direction," said John P. Fish, the group's co-director.

It has been conjectured that this account represents a slip of the pen, and should read "David Bonjorn and his son".

With a slip of the pen that would prove fatal, the resident ordered 0.9 milligrams of Digoxin rather than .09.

In all the excitement the Registrar, Mrs Molly Croll, suffered a slip of the pen.

"Shorter stamens" seems to be a slip of the pen for "longer,"--unless the observations were made on some genus in which the structure is unusual.)

This applies also to Letter 629, written after Darwin had learned Fritz Muller's theory, which is obscured by some errors or slips of the pen.)

(rushing) Two possible causes for the error here - one, a simple omission, a slip of the pen, perhaps, because the writer paused in the middle of the word.

This slip of the pen will no doubt displease Mr Duisenberg who, for his part, keeps reiterating day after day that the euro is fundamentally stable.

Treviranus speaks of P. longiflora as short-styled, but this is evidently a slip of the pen, for further on, I see, he says the stigma always projects beyond anthers.

When sufficient cash had been raised for a further repressing on Candix, the number 301 was retained, possibly for the sake of continuity, possibly as a slip of the pen.