the thin end of the wedge
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› the start of a harmful development: Identity cards for football supporters could be the thin end of the wedge - soon everyone might have to carry identification.Beginnings and starts
(Definition of the thin end of the wedge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent noun
- beginning noun
- commencement noun
- inception noun
- initiation noun (START)
- institution noun (START)
- introduction noun (PUT INTO USE)
- jumping-off point noun
- kick-off noun
- onset noun
- salvo noun
- seed noun (BEGINNING)
- start noun (BEGINNING)
- starting point noun
- starting time noun
- the outset noun
- trigger noun (START)
- zero hour noun
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