tip the balance

(also tip the scales)

Definition

› to cause a change, esp. in making something more likely to happen: Introducing new fish to the lake tipped the balance and made it very hard for the trout that were already living there.

(Definition of tip the balance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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tiny adj
tip n END
tip n INFORMATION
tip n MONEY
tip off someone phrasal verb
tip the balance idiom
tip v FALL OVER
tip v LEAN
tip v PAY
tip-off n
tipi n

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