budge an inch

English

Alternative forms

• give an inch
• move an inch

Verb

budge an inch (third-person singular simple present budges an inch, present participle budging an inch, simple past and past participle budged an inch)

1. (figurative, chiefly in the negative) To make any change in one's position or opinion, no matter how small.

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References

Note that some of the links below are missing a / due to technical restrictions; there is no such expression as give budge an inch.

• “not give budge an inch” (US) / “not give budge an inch” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “give/budge an inch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “not give budge an inch” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “not give budge move an inch” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.