Money & finance
slip through someone's fingers
be lost unnoticed
If money, time, or an opportunity slips through your fingers, you lose it despite having a chance to keep or use it.
Hear it in real life
How did you spend your bonus so quickly?
It just slipped through my fingers.
I earn a reasonable salary, but money still seems to slip through my fingers.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Money keeps slipping through my hand.
Say: Money keeps slipping through my fingers.
The figurative expression for losing money is “slip through someone’s fingers.”
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How it fits in a sentence.
money slipped through my fingers; let opportunities slip through your fingers
Your turn: say it out loud
I earn a reasonable salary, but money still seems to slip through my fingers.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
slip through someone's fingers
be lost unnoticed
“I earn a reasonable salary, but money still seems to slip through my fingers.”
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