slip through someone's fingers (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
glosses: To elude someone in the end, despite having almost been achieved or captured.
Forms:
form: slips through someone's fingers
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slipping through someone's fingers
tags: participle
present
form: slipped through someone's fingers
tags: participle
past
form: slipped through someone's fingers
tags: past