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This idiom implies that someone has wasted or ignored something precious that cannot be retrieved or restored. For example: "Jeremy let his youth slip through his fingers, and now he was a bitter man approaching old age alone."
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe phrase, "slipped through your fingers," is used to imply that you have lost an opportunity, by not grabbing hold of it strongly enough.
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