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thin edge of the wedge en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of thin end of the wedge.
    • the thin edge of the wedge was further widened by the fact that a socialist party [...] broke precedent [...]. 1996, Dale Belman et al., Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition, page 247:
    • But the great difficulty was the getting in the thin edge of the wedge; when once they had anything to do with price they must apply it to everything. 1877, The Analyst, page 381:
    • But at last the thin edge of the wedge of reform had been pushed in. 1903, Albert Shaw, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, page 196: