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slippery slope

noun as in primrose path

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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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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slippery slope, such as: causal sequence, cause and effect, chain of events, contagion effect, domino theory, and knock-on.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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