Give him the slip

[Johnny]

There's an idiom GIVE HIM A SLIP in english.

I don't know if I can say Give you a slip, or give them a slip.

[riverkid]

Originally Posted by Johnny

There's an idiom GIVE HIM A SLIP in english.

I don't know if I can say Give you a slip, or give them a slip.

Johnny,

I think that the idiomatic phrase you probably mean is,

Give him the slip.

It means to lose somebody on purpose, to escape their prescence often thru trickery or deceit.

If this is the one you mean then, yes, you can replace 'him' with any of the other object pronouns, subject of course to it being semantically sensible.

[JSmiley]

riverkid is right, and of course, it should be mentioned that:

"I gave him a slip"

means that you probably gave him some nice women's pajamas!

cheers

[wuwei]

Originally Posted by riverkid

Johnny,

I think that the idiomatic phrase you probably mean is,

Give him the slip.

It means to lose somebody on purpose, to escape their prescence often thru trickery or deceit.

If this is the one you mean then, yes, you can replace 'him' with any of the other object pronouns, subject of course to it being semantically sensible.

Hi,
I can not find the word 'Prescence' in my dictionary, could you pls explain to me what the word and the phrase 'to escape their prescence' mean here?
Thanks.
Ian

[Tdol]

= presence (typo)

[Johnny]

Yes, apparently it's a typo. But it doesn't block us from understanding Riverkid

[rewboss]

Originally Posted by Johnny

Yes, apparently it's a typo. But it doesn't block us from understanding Riverkid

Apparently, it stopped wuwei from understanding riverkid. But let's not make a big fuss about it: typing errors can happen to anybody. Tdol clarified, end of story.