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a sideways approach	This agenda is to avoid a head to head confrontation, rather slide in with a 'sideways' move which may provide a smoother, elusive manner in approaching the challenge.	Rate it: (5.00 / 3 votes)
dress for the slide, not the ride	When choosing clothing for riding a motorcycle, priority should be given to protective gear that helps one survive an accident.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
let slide	To let go, allow, release, pass over without action.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
let slide	To tolerate a violation of a norm from.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
let slide	To allow the condition of something to deteriorate due to negligence or apathy.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slide off	Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see slide,‎ off.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slide off	To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
that's the way life is	That is the way things happenCertain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything, page 279:That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption, ISBN 0310511011, page 45:There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, ISBN 059524050X, page 337:Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)