Let Slide Meaning

Example :   The police officer let the ticket slide when she found her brother-in-law's car illegally parked.  The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales  But nathelees she moste a tyme abyde,  And with good hope lete her sorrow slyde.  The judge let me slide on the speeding, but not on a $200 seat-belt violation.  He let the farm slide after inheriting it from his father.Used other than as an idiom: see let,‎ slide.