Generally refers to a situation where things did not happen at the last minute the way they were expected to due to unforseen reasons
I was to get a raise this year, but it didnt happen due to the merger.
Well my friend, there is many a slip between the cup and the lip!
by Vishal Dhaliwal September 22, 2006
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Aspirin between my knees

To make some phenomenal gaffe or faux pas, similar to putting your foot in your mouth.
Man, I really put the aspirin between my knees yesterday. I told Jen that her new dress made her look fat.
by Two Hep Cats February 18, 2012
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Landing the boat between two islands; dick between boobs
by innocentgirl January 29, 2010
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While Eminem would fuck you, Slim Shady would fuck you...

... and your mother
Hoe: "Eminem and Slim Shady are the same! There's no difference!"
Bro: "There's a Difference between Eminem and Slim Shady."
Bro: "While Eminem would fuck you, Slim Shady would fuck you...

... and your mother."
Hoe: "..."
by Exo Epic February 22, 2015
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The tree lane. This is what everyone called it when I was growing up in Western Indiana.
The kid's ball rolled across the strip of grass between street and sidewalk and

into the gutter.
by mister krinkly November 06, 2013
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in our modern soc-med world, a very important moral quality that you absolutely cannot, and will never be able to, buy at the local Walmart.
the main reason the 2016 campaign rhetoric was so vitriolic and insidious was that both presidential nominees didn't know, or didn't bother to learn, the difference between attacking people and problems.
by Sexydimma February 03, 2021
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