But this week a question about his debt to the economic policies of Britain's Conservative Party apparently flustered him into an embarrassing slip of the tongue.

For one thing, the tall Celt mostly called them "dear" or "darling," a part of his speech pattern that served him well, lessening the chance of an embarrassing slip.

That ensured the Blues were spared an embarrassing slip against Championship opponents in a re-run of the two teams' meeting in the 2010 final, which Chelsea won 1-0.

I placed Thurgood Marshall on the bench in the Gideon case five years before his appointment, an embarrassing slip corrected in later editions.

In April 2010, Timms' department made an embarrassing slip when a letter purporting to be from him mistakenly identified IP address as "intellectual property address".

Backtracking from an embarrassing slip of the tongue by Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, the Japanese Government tried today to argue that while it may be one of the world's technological superpowers, its legions of physicists and engineers have no idea how to build an atomic bomb.

Kelly Rowland had an embarrassing slip in London yesterday - no, not of the Janet Jackson variety.

Beyonce And Jay-Z Are Having A Girl, Kelly Rowland Accidentally Reveals OMG Famous - Fri, Nov 4, 2011 12:15 PM PDT Kelly Rowland had an embarrassing slip in London yesterday - no, not of the Janet Jackson variety.