wriggle room

English

Noun

wriggle room (uncountable)

1. Wiggle room.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141:

     This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.

   • 2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41:

     Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.