| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1972 - 28 頁
...concerned. Be that as it may, we are suggesting to this committee that we adopt our amendment, because there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and I don't want any slips around here at the close of the day. So if there is anything that can't be worked... | |
| Tabitha Tenney - 1992 - 370 頁
...out to your heart's content; for I am sure, I wishes for your happiness as much as for my own. But there is many a slip between the cup and the lip; and many disappointments in this vale of tears." Dorcasina was so entirely absorbed in her own agreeable... | |
| Eugene C. Tidball - 2002 - 594 頁
...exclusive of Antietam for which I suppose I will hereafter get one. This is as good as I could expect. But there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and I will count no chicks before they are hatched. He wrote again on March 2, the day before he started... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 592 頁
...wine of his own growth and in scorn of the prophet, raised a cup of it to his mouth. The seer replied, "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip," and at the same instant a tumult arose over a wild boar in the vineyard. Ancaeus put down the cup and was... | |
| 1918 - 956 頁
...wish "The Evening Post" had waited to see the report itself, before endorsing it so enthusiastically. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and the British statesmen are experts in the art of seeming to give liberally while their "ifs" and "buts"... | |
| Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1908 - 1288 頁
...maintains that it should come in overhead or underneath, why should that not be put In the Bill '! There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and though the commission in nine cases out of ten might give good decisions, it might in the tenth case... | |
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