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slippery slope
noun
- a dangerous and irreversible course:
the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.
Word History and Origins
Origin of slippery slope1
Idioms and Phrases
A dangerous course, one that leads easily to catastrophe, as in He's on a slippery slope, compromising his values to please both the bosses and the union . This metaphoric expression alludes to traversing a slick hillside, in constant danger of falling. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
Swiss leaders also dispel the “slippery slope” idea by repeatedly rejecting substantial minimum wage increases.
The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.
So I found that scene to be the most “slippery slope,” in terms of how do you act that?
But the other major issue for some critics is the idea that the Tennessee law creates a slippery slope.
Some fall to rise no more, but their surviving comrades rush up the slippery slope.
In the drenching rain the French pushed forward, dragging their guns with great difficulty up the slippery slope.
The more active of the attackers assisted those who experienced difficulty in negotiating the slippery slope.
Margery took hold of the rope, meanwhile gazing up the slippery slope.
Scrambling up a slippery slope, they were soon out of the water, on a narrow, shelving ledge running along a steep wall.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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