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Slippery slope
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a situation where a small initial action or decision leads to a chain of events that ultimately results in a more significant and often negative outcome
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
singular
not gender specific
Plural form
slippery slopes
Examples
Allowing one exception to the rule could be the start of a slippery slope toward chaos.
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