ξυλῖτις
From LSJ
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
(sc. γῆ), ἡ, timber-bearing land, PPetr. 3 p. 223 (iii BC), PCair. Zen. 387.9 (iii BC), PLille 5.20 (iii BC); later ξ. χέρσος, opp. σπόριμος, PLond. 2.267.99 (ii AD), BGU 703.5 (ii AD).