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slippery slope
noun
a dangerous and irreversible course.
the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slippery slope1
Idioms and Phrases
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For some believers, however, the calls for “spiritual warfare” may become a slippery slope into justification for violence, as in the case of the alleged Minnesota shooter.
That could be a slippery slope, one that would make the world’s game less local and more global.
Nazi architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg later pushed Nordau’s theory of degeneration further down the slippery slope, arguing that it was not social conditioning that produced such despicable degenerates, but race, and in particular race-mixing.
Once one group is targeted or fundamental rights are taken away, then it is a slippery slope.
“I always caution people about leaning on travel credit cards that get a lot of press in order to finance these large trips because interest on credit cards are exorbitant and can be a slippery slope that is hard to get out of,” she noted.
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