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Noun
thin edge of the wedge
- Alternative form of thin end of the wedge
- 1877 The Analyst, p. 381
- 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.
- 1903 Albert Shaw The American Monthly Review of Reviews, p. 196
- But at last the thin edge of the wedge of reform had been pushed in.
1996, Dale Belman et al., Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition, page 247:the thin edge of the wedge was further widened by the fact that a socialist party [...] broke precedent [...].