there’s many a slip between cup and lip
- there’s many a slip between cup and lip
Cf. CATO THE ELDER in Aulus Gellius Noctes Atticae XIII. xviii. 1 (saepe audivi) inter os atque offam multa intervenire posse, (I have often heard) that many things can come between mouth and morsel; PALLADAS (attrib.) in Anthologia Palatina x. 32 πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου, there are many things between the cup and the edge of the lip.
1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages 15 Many thynges fall betwene the cuppe and the mouth... Betwene the cuppe and the lyppes maye come many casualties.
1783 in Collections of Massachusetts Hist. Society (1877) 5th ser. II. 216 Have a care, and remember the old proverb of ‘many a slip,’ &c.
1840 R. H. BARHAM Ingoldsby Legends 1st ser. 280 Doubtless the adage, ‘There’s many a slip ‘Twixt the cup and the lip,’ hath reference to medicine.
1979 E. KYLE Summer Scandal xiii. ‘I thought you were here for life.’.. ‘There’s many a slip between cup and lip.’
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