the thin end of the wedge
UKthe beginning of a harmful development:
Identity cards for students could be the thin end of the wedge - soon everyone might have to carry identification.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Beginnings and starts
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- clean
- go/be back to square one idiom
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- seed
- square
- starting point
- starting time
- the outset
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour
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