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slippery slope

滑坡,斜坡,坡度,坡度大

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dangerous and irreversible course: the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.

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Examples

  • This has been pitched as greasing the skids on the slippery slope to socialism, and McCarthy presided over it.

  • Having survived a slippery slope on Thin Ice, protagonist Beth Rivers has been laying low in Benedict, Alaska.

  • Last week, she suggested such a bill might be a slippery slope toward excessive government regulation of business.

  • The NCAA and 11 of its top conferences, worried that the ruling was a slippery slope toward a true open labor market for players, appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which will make its first antitrust ruling on college sports in 37 years.

  • 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.

  • Hers is a particular brand of essay: writing at its most crystal clear, subject matter at its most slippery and interesting.

  • The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.

  • Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.

  • He will find that “Ice” is a concrete word, and “Slippery” indicates a quality of “Ice” and of other things.

  • He must write down the first two words, “Ice” and “Slippery,” the latter word under the former.

  • As Isabel walked carefully down the slippery stair she veiled her eyes to hide the wonder in them.

  • I turned away from the bank and raced up a long slope to a saw-backed ridge that promised largely of unobstructed view.

  • It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.