English Dictionary

let slide

verb

(transitive, of intangibles) To let go, allow, release, pass over without action. / To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

I decided to let the mistake slide and not dwell on it.

意味（1）

(transitive, of intangibles) To let go, allow, release, pass over without action.

The police officer let the ticket slide when she found her brother-in-law's car illegally parked.

意味（2）

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

意味（3）

(transitive, of persons) To tolerate a violation of a norm from.

The judge let me slide on the speeding, but not on a $200 seat-belt violation.

意味（4）

(idiomatic) To allow the condition of something to deteriorate due to negligence or apathy.

He let the farm slide after inheriting it from his father.

意味（5）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, slide.