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slip a cog
Idioms and Phrases
Also, slip a gear or one's gears . Lose one's ability to reason soundly or make correct judgments, as in She must have slipped a cog or she would never have gone out barefoot in December , or What's the matter with him? Has he slipped his gears? These slangy usages allude to a mechanical failure owing to the cog of a gear or a gear failing to mesh. The first dates from about 1930, the variant from the 1960s.Example Sentences
And would nature allow it to choke up or slip a cog just because a little thing like a worm got tangled in its gearing?
I will try to answer your questions, but you know after a lapse of forty years, one’s memory may slip a cog.
On the second round, he seemed to slip a cog on the par-three fifth hole.
I know you can drive like—like you can work algebra, logyruthms, and never slip a cog.
The best I can think of him is that losing his savings may have made him slip a cog, and then the scare over the way we landed here and his spells of fever probably hurried up the softening.”
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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