slide off

Definitions

1. 1

   To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed

   To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off.

   • I'm going to try to slide off from work early, if I can.
   • 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.
   • Susan and I slid off to an Indian restaurant in Shepherd's Bush, and I slid off on to the floor.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slide, off.

   • Make sure your cup doesn't slide off the tray.

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