slip through someone's fingers

English

Verb

slip through someone's fingers (third-person singular simple present slips through someone's fingers, present participle slipping through someone's fingers, simple past and past participle slipped through someone's fingers)

1. To elude someone in the end, despite having almost been achieved or captured.

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: door de vingers glippen
• Finnish: valua käsistä
• French: passer sous le nez (fr) (literally “pass under the nose”), filer entre les doigts (fr)
• German: durch die Lappen gehen (de)
• Hungarian: kicsúscik a kezéből
• Icelandic: ganga úr greipum
• Irish: imigh idir méara duine éigin
• Polish: przechodzić koło nosa impf, przejść koło nosa (pl) pf
• Portuguese: escapar por entre os dedos
• Spanish: escaparse entre los dedos