slippery slope

滑坡,斜坡,坡度,坡度大

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a dangerous and irreversible course: the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indomino effect

Synonyms

causal sequence因果序列,因果顺序,因果关系序列,因果关系顺序 cause and effect因果关系,因果,因果律,原因和效果 chain of events事件链,一系列事件,一连串事件 contagion effect传染效应,传染作用,传染效果,传染性效应 domino theory多米诺骨牌理论,多米诺理论,多米诺骨牌论,多米尼克理论 knock-on敲击,敲门砖,敲门声,敲门事件 knock-on effect联动效应,敲击效应,连带效应,敲击效果 ripple effect

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.

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slippery slope

滑坡,斜坡,坡度,坡度大

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a dangerous and irreversible course: the slippery slope from narcotics to prison.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indomino effect

Synonyms

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.

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