VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Freudian Slip

Meaning:

Accidental use of an incorrect word; a revealing slip of the tongue

Examples:

  • It might've been a Freudian slip, but you said it.
  • The Freudian slip is a good example of the way Mercury functions.
  • I know what a Freudian slip is.
  • It was a Freudian slip, but true— came out of the Brill building in New York.
  • It's a freudian slip.
  • Yeah, it's a Freudian slip, right?
  • A mistake like that becomes symbolic, a sort of Freudian slip, and it has impelled us today to hold this fundamental debate on cloning, certainly, but above all on whether the living organism should be patented.
  • I guess that's called a freudian slip.
  • You, my dear, are a Freudian slip.
  • I've got three clients who lost their husbands— must have been a Freudian slip.