slippery slope

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.

Hers is a particular brand of essay: writing at its most crystal clear, subject matter at its most slippery and interesting.

The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.

Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.

He will find that “Ice” is a concrete word, and “Slippery” indicates a quality of “Ice” and of other things.

He must write down the first two words, “Ice” and “Slippery,” the latter word under the former.

As Isabel walked carefully down the slippery stair she veiled her eyes to hide the wonder in them.

I turned away from the bank and raced up a long slope to a saw-backed ridge that promised largely of unobstructed view.

It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.