thin edge of the wedge
English
editNoun
edit- Alternative form of thin end of the wedge
- 1877, The Analyst, page 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, page 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 [...].