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idiombe on a/the slippery slope(also go, head, slide etc down a/the slippery slope)used in order to say that what someone is doing will begin an unpleasant process that will get worse and more difficult to control as it continues:Ed's mother realises that he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime but is powerless to stop him.We are not prepared to go down the slippery slope of being drawn into another country's civil war.Commercial sponsorship of television programmes is the slippery slope that leads to the destruction of editorial independence.
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