Question

A 'slip of the tongue' means something said ______________.
A. Wrongly by chance
B. Accidentally
C. Without giving proper thought
D. To hurt another person

Answer 1

Hint:An idiom is a word or term that usually has a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase, but although maintaining the literal meaning of the phrase, certain phrases become figurative idioms. The figurative sense of an idiom, categorised as formulaic language, is distinct from the literal meaning.

Complete answer:
A ‘slip of tongue’ means A speech mistake in which a phrase is pronounced wrongly, or something is said accidentally by the speaker.
To complete the sentence we need a word which means something which happened accidentally.
Thus option B ‘accidently’ completes the sentence correctly
Lets see other options :-
Wrongly by chance - 'Wrongly by chance' is by itself an incorrect expression. 'Wrongly' means 'incorrect' and applies to an accident 'by chance' thus this option is wrong.
Accidently - An incident that occurs by chance or that has no clear or intended cause. Thus this option is right.
Without giving proper thought - This expression 'sounds reckless rather than accidental' without giving thought '. Thus this option is wrong too.
To hurt another person - This phrase 'hurt another human' sounds deliberate, the opposite of what is implied by the given word. Thus this option is wrong too.

Hence the correct answer is option B.

Note:A slip of pen was first recorded to have been used by a British man in the 1650s. He wrote a letter in which he professed his everlasting love for Lady Catherine, his love interest. She saw at the opening of the letter that he had signed the letter with the words "Within Love" instead of "With Love." Days later, when Lady Catherine related this to him, he laughed and said, "Oh, it was just a slip of the pen." Everyone around loved the expression and it caught on, and years later, around 1725, a slip of the tongue started to become more popular, as people also made it more popular.