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Wow, that's a really interesting idiom. I've never heard that before and will definitely use it over slippery slope, especially since pointing out a slippery slope is often incorrectly called a fallacy (from my understanding, it is only a fallacy if there is no established trend).



It’s used a lot in political planning i.e here’s our ultimate aim, what’s our thin end of the wedge, and what’s our pretext




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