not to let the occasion slip
- Fuente de la expresión
- Diccionario Nuevo de las dos lenguas española e inglesa en quatro tomos
- Estructura completa
- Not to let the occasion slip
- Contexto
- He was determined not to let the occasion slip by without making one dramatic attempt to alter the climate of world affairs. Some months earlier Eisenhower had formed a blue-ribbon panel, known as the Gaither Committee, to assess Soviet military power and the United States' ability to defend against surprise attack.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Aleksandr Fursenko,Timothy Naftali
- Título de la fuente
- Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
- Año
- 2006
- Web
- http://books.google.es/books?id=ASRrHHq0xtgC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22not+to+let+the+occasion+slip%22&source=bl&ots=AwIhGW_DK1&sig=wpk7vLjZKZ_6-dV1E2jNxKxtRGU&hl=es&sa=X&ei=y0n6UpbmKoq70wX7o4DABQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22not%20to%20let%20the%20occasion%20slip%22&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Raro