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单词 slippery slope
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slippery slope

A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous: he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime...
  • This leads them down a slippery slope until, at the end of the play, they ‘tear each other's throats out’.
  • Not me, evidently: and so my first step was taken on that slippery slope leading down to a kind of gentle madness.
  • Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada.
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