slip through

verb — 2 senses

slip through

verb
1

To get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.

  • Criticisms of poor accuracy can usually be justified, but the occasional error (as in many a published work) can still slip through.2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:
2

To barely pass; to minimally succeed at something.

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