English-Portuguese translations for slip of the tongue

• lapso
  No entanto, não se trata de um lapso de língua. This is not, however, a slip of the tongue.
  Sim, peço desculpa, foi um lapso. Yes, please excuse me, it was a slip of the tongue.
  Cometi um erro, um lapso, naturalmente. I made a mistake, a slip of the tongue of course.

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