slip through someone's fingers

English

Verb

slip through someone's fingers (third-person singular simple present slips through someone's fingers, present participle slipping through someone's fingers, simple past and past participle slipped through someone's fingers)

To elude someone in the end, despite having almost been achieved or captured.

Translations

Dutch: door de vingers glippen
French: passer sous le nez (fr) (literally “pass under the nose”)
German: durch die Lappen gehen (de)
Hungarian: kicsúscik a kezéből
Icelandic: ganga úr greipum
Irish: imigh idir méara duine éigin
Portuguese: escapar por entre os dedos
Spanish: escaparse entre los dedos

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