SLIPPERY SLOPE

slippery slope: translation

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ very

▪ dangerous

▪ proverbial

▪ He was on the proverbial slippery slope to bankruptcy.

VERB + SLIPPERY SLOPE

▪ go down, head down, slide down

▪ This nation is sliding further down the slippery slope of repression.

▪ lead sb down, take sb down

▪ be on

SLIPPERY-SLOPE + NOUN

▪ argument

▪ The slippery-slope argument can be used against anything.

PREPOSITION

▪ slippery slope of

▪ the slippery slope of moral relativism

▪ slippery slope to

▪ a slippery slope to divorce

▪ slippery slope towards/toward

PHRASES

▪ be the start of a slippery slope, be the top of a slippery slope

▪ This is just the start of a slippery slope that ends with dictatorship.

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