English-Italian translations for slip of the tongue

• lapsus
  Onorevole Leinen, lei ha assolutamente ragione: è stato un lapsus. Mr Leinen, you are absolutely right: it was a slip of the tongue.
  Talvolta un lapsus linguae può trarre in inganno. It sometimes happens that a slip of the tongue can give a false impression.
  Non so se si sia trattato di un lapsus linguae , poichè i brevetti non hanno nulla a che vedere con le norme. I do not know whether that was a slip of the tongue, because patents have nothing to do with standards.
• papera
• strafalcione

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