"Your slip is showing" #sloppy #showing #obvious #slip #ladies
Another idiom for "slip is showing"
What's another idiomatic expression for "slip is showing", meaning the hidden agenda is coming out? Walter Ching 09:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- "The cat's out of the bag"? I never heard "the slip is showing" used in this way, but I like it. —Angr 09:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe Walter has a slightly narrow notion of 'your slip is showing'.
The origin of the expression means 'the edge of your underskirt is
showing, tidy it up', so it was a discrete way of saying 'you've just
put your foot in it' -- maybe revealing a hidden agenda, but also e.g.
tactless or very inappropriate. Maybe 'a bit of a foot-in-mouth, there,
my dear'?
Chris Towner 11:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, I thought this was literally, 'Your slip is showing', to which I
was going to offer a comment I actually had said to me, 'The back of
your skirt is tucked into the back of your underwear.' Anchoress 11:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- I too had only ever heard it in the literal sense of "the edge of
your underskirt is showing". No one's ever said it directly to me,
though! :-) —Angr 11:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Spill the beans? ---Sluzzelin 14:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- Not quite. "Spill the beans" is for after-the-fact usage only. "Your
slip is showing" can be a (semi-)friendly warning that you're about to
put your foot in it, when there still is time (to shut up, or whatever).
--NorwegianBlue talk 18:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- I thought it was used for bra straps. Your slip is showing. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 03:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well,if you washed your slip it would "all come out in the wash"hotclaws**== 09:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
There's actually a euphemism for the literal meaning of "your slip
is showing". It's "it's snowing".
So if a girl asks you on a hot July
(or January, if you're in the southern hemisphere) day "Is it snowing?"
don't look out the window. --Charlene 10:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
In the "Ray" movie, his manager says this to him when he shows signs of heroin addiction (scratching and twitching), tells him "your slip is showing".
