| 单词 | the thin end of the wedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe thin (little or small) end of the wedge b. the thin (little or small) end of the wedge, a small beginning which it is hoped or feared may lead to something greater. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point > from which progress may be made sunrise1623 the thin (little or small) end of the wedge1856 a toe in the door1977 1856 C. Fox Jrnl. 8 Nov. in Mem. Old Friends (1882) xxii. 308 Beware, Englishmen, of the tendencies to hierarchy in your country when the thin end of the wedge is introduced: it will work its way on to all this. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. i. 1 (heading) The Small End of the Wedge. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. i. 15 We have all heard of the little end of the wedge... That pill had been the little end of Lady Arabella's wedge. Up to that period she had been struggling in vain to make a severance between her husband and her enemy [the doctor]. 1867 Hansard Commons 27 June 615 The thin end of the wedge. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1877) II. x. 460 The rule [of Chrodegang] was but the small end of the wedge. 1884 Graphic 20 Dec. 639/3 Cremation advocates have managed to get in the thin end of the wedge in France. < as lemmas |
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