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📚 Slippery slope, phrase.
❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime.
2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’.
3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness.
4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada.
5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair.
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❓ Definition: A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous.
❗️ Examples:
1. He is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime.
2. This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’.
3. Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness.
4. Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada.
5. In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair.
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🌀 @cambridge_dic