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单词
thin end of the wedge
释义
thin end of the wedge
in British English
anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
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Examples of 'thin end of the wedge' in a sentence
thin end of the wedge
One thought, quicker than lightning, thin end of the wedge, undoing all my rebalancing.
Vanessa Jones
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
(
2002
)
So they'd left it, the thin end of the wedge already jammed in between them.
Robert Wilson
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
(
2002
)
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