English

Verb

slide off

1. Used other than as an idiom: see slide,‎ off.

   Make sure your cup doesn't slide off the tray.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed
   • 1982, John Le Carré, The Quest for Karla, page 162:

     Soon as he could, he slid off to Jim's rooms to make sure he'd left nothing around that a journalist might pick on if a journalist were clever enough to make the connection, Ellis to Prideaux.

   • 2009, David Nobbs, I Didn't Get Where I Am Today, ISBN 1409066967, page 444:

     Susan and I slid off to an Indian restaurant in Shepherd's Bush, and I slid off on to the floor.

   • 2011, Lamont Z. Brown Phoenix King, ‎& Lamont Z. Brown, Between the Gates of Heaven and ****, ISBN 1426952619, page 10:

     As Simone and the crowd praised Drew I slid off to the back hurt, ashamed, and pissed off.

   • 2013, Steven Gould, Impulse, ISBN 1429987545:

     I slid off to follow her and I heard the scrape of a board on snow.

   I'm going to try to slide off from work early, if I can.

Synonyms

• (leave): slip away, slip off, sneak off