English-French translations for slip of the tongue

• lapsus
  Il ne s'agit donc pas d'un lapsus linguae mais d'une campagne décidée. It is thus not a slip of the tongue but a deliberate campaign.
  C'est une erreur de ma part et sans doute un lapsus. I made a mistake, a slip of the tongue of course.
  J'ignore si c'était juste un lapsus, car les brevets n'ont aucun rapport avec les normes. I do not know whether that was a slip of the tongue, because patents have nothing to do with standards.
• lapsus linguae
  Il ne s'agit donc pas d'un lapsus linguae mais d'une campagne décidée. It is thus not a slip of the tongue but a deliberate campaign.

Definition of slip of the tongue

• A mistake in speech

Examples

• It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.

Related words

• slip off the hooks
• slip of the pen
• make a slip of the pen
• a slip of the pen