: a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences
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Examples of slippery slope in a Sentence
His behavior will lead him down a slippery slope to ruin.
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On top of that, the fact that Mike and Eleven will be dating feels like the beginning of a slippery slope — is Stranger Things going to become a soapy teen drama?
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The volunteers often have to use chain saws and maneuver logs along steep, slippery slopes, which can be hazardous.
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From the standpoint of a dry-ish January, that probably qualifies as a slippery slope.
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The idea of stripping rights from the mentally ill is a very slippery slope.
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However, city ombudsman Anne Mieke Zwaneveld has told the AD that the plan is the start of a slippery slope into ethic profiling.
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But attacking the pillars of U.S. government is a slippery slope.
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So, yes, mushrooms are both a powerful skin-care ingredient and a slippery slope to hippie nonsense.
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Handing out punishments for errors like that is a slippery slope to start down on.
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First Known Use of slippery slope
1951
SLIPPERY SLOPE Defined for English Language Learners
slippery slope
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: a process or series of events that is hard to stop or control once it has begun and that usually leads to worse or more difficult things
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