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'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'?



 
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'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'? #1 (permalink) Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:13 am   'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'?
 

Is the preposition "from" necessary here or not? why?
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"It slipped my mind" , why not say "It slipped from my mind"? #2 (permalink) Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:18 am   "It slipped my mind" , why not say "It slipped from my mind"?
 

Well, the usual collocation is to slip somebody's memory/mind. You cannot add "from" to this - it would sound weird, I guess.
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'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'? #3 (permalink) Sat Sep 15, 2007 13:11 pm   'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'?
 

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"It slipped my mind" is the standard, idiomatic wording.
The word 'from' is neither necessary nor is it used in this expression.

(Look at definition #56 here.)
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'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'? #4 (permalink) Sat Sep 15, 2007 15:55 pm   'It slipped my mind', why not say 'It slipped from my mind'?
 

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