There's many a slip twixt cup and lip

There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

(literary)

something that you say in order to warn someone not to be too confident about the result of a plan, because many things can go wrong before it is completed We still might finish in time for the deadline, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

See fall through the cracks, let slip

See also: and, cup, lip, many, slip, twixt

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ayscue	['eiskju:]
Ilona	EE-lo-naw (Hungarian), ee-LO-nah (German), EE-lo-nah (Finnish)	Hungarian, German, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech
Bernardo	ber-NAHR-do (Italian, Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Mojca	-	Slovene, Croatian
Rosamond	ROZ-ə-mund	English
Alf (1)	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Norse Mythology