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.