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2. You see, I'm an only child. And so are you — of your mother. Isn't it a bore? There's so much Expected of one. By the time they've done expecting, one's as good as dead. (J. Galsworthy) (9) to slip (out of) one's mind (memory) — to forget 1. Perhaps you really have a friend called Merde and it slipped your mind. (J. Wain) 2. ... that the main purpose of my visit had slipped from his failing memory. (A. Cronin) (10) all along — from the very first, from the very beginning (it implies 'over a period of time' or 'during that period') 1. Miss Boland is the daughter of a close friend. Thus, all along, he regarded her as his own responsibility. (A. Cronin) 2. Savina realized now that all along she had felt a secret superiority to Edna. (M. Wilson) 3. That's what I suppose I intended doing all along. (M, Wilson) 6
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