News & Articles sleight of hand 12 old words that survived by getting fossilized in idioms Sleight of hand(not "slight of hand" as it's often misspelled) helped the Middle English word "sleight" survive obsolescence June 14, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News 12 old words that survived by getting fossilized in idioms Sleight of hand(not "slight of hand" as it's often misspelled) helped the Middle English word "sleight" survive obsolescence June 14, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News