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You can stop earphones from tangling by folding them in two to bring the ear-buds and jack together and putting a slip-knot in the cable near to that end.
From The Tips Box: Tangled Headphones, Old TV Armoires, Spam | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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You start with your slip-knot and chain 6 times, and then form a circle by starting a slip-stitch into your first chain.
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The slip-knot thing makes me feel like I might choke.
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But in such striking-out he tangles his arms, pulls strong on the slip-knot, and it runs home.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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‘And you will have observed before, and you will observe now, that this knot, which was drawn chock-tight round his neck by the strain of his own arms, is a slip-knot’: holding it up for demonstration.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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The man now prepares to mount by pressing heavily on the stirrup, so that the horse may not lose its balance; and at the moment that he throws his leg over the animal's back, he pulls the slip-knot binding the front legs, and the beast is free.
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After several fruitless attempts the crew tried to pass a slip-knot round the body of the mollusc.
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The man now prepares to mount by pressing heavily on the stirrup, so that the horse may not lose its balance; and at the moment that he throws his leg over the animal's back, he pulls the slip-knot binding the front legs, and the beast is free.
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Jack, perceiving in one corner of the room a strong cord, took courage, and making a slip-knot at each end, he threw them over their heads, and tied it to the window-bars; he then pulled till he had choked them.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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The two front legs are now tied closely together with a strong leathern thong, fastened by a slip-knot.
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