slide off
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /slaɪd ˈɒf/
  • (GA) IPA: /slaɪd ˈɔf/
Verb

slide off

  1. To leave#Verb|leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being notice#Verb|noticed; to slip away, slip off.
    I'm going to try to slide off from work early, if I can.
    • 1974 June, John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, London: Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-340-18879-8; republished in The Quest for Karla, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982, ISBN 978-0-340-28376-9, page 162:
      Soon as he could, he slid off to Jim's rooms to make sure he'd left nothing around that a journalist might pick on if a journalist were clever enough to make the connection, Ellis to Prideaux.
    • 2003, David Nobbs, “The Nervous Nineties”, in I Didn't Get Where I Am Today: An Autobiography, London: Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-434-00897-1; republished London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group, 2004, ISBN 978-0-09-942164-1, page 444 ↗:
      Susan and I slid off to an Indian restaurant in Shepherd's Bush, and I slid off on to the floor.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see slide, off
    Make sure your cup doesn't slide off the tray.
Synonyms


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