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there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
[
edit
]
Proverb
[
edit
]
there
's
many a
slip
between
the
cup
and
the
lip
Alternative form of
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
.
[
1797
, Thomas Browne, “
Ancaeus
”, in
A New Classical Dictionary for the Use of Schools,
[
…
]
, London:
[
…
]
G
[
eorge
]
G
[
eorge
]
and J
[
ohn
]
Robinson
,
[
…
]
; and
E
[
lizabeth
]
Newbery
,
[
…
]
,
→OCLC
,
signature D, recto
, column 1:
Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra.
[
…
]
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip
.
]
[
1835
, [
Catharine Sedgwick
], chapter XXIX, in
The Linwoods; or, “Sixty Years since” in America.
[
…
]
, volume II, New York, N.Y.:
Harper & Brothers
,
[
…
]
,
→OCLC
,
page
139
:
That "
there is many a slip between the cup and the lip
" is a proverb somewhat musty; but it pithily indicates the sudden mutations to which poor humanity is liable.
]
1848
November –
1850
December,
William Makepeace Thackeray
, “Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Huxter”, in
The History of Pendennis.
[
…
]
, volume II, London:
Bradbury and Evans
,
[
…
]
, published
1850
,
→OCLC
,
page
332
:
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip
! Who knows what may happen, Mr. Huxter, or who will sit in Parliament for Clavering next session?
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