A slipperyslope is a situation in which events or actions readily progress from one to the next.
When the mother found an empty bottle of whiskey in her lazy teenage son's bedroom, she warned him he was on a slippery slope toward a life of indigence and destitution.
If you let one nigga slide then you gon’ have the nextnigga thinking he can do the same thing and so on and so forth.
I let him slide one time now he thinks he can keep doing it again and again, what we have now is called a slippery slope. Now ima have to beat his ass.
A slippery slope is the perceived danger of a "bad" behavior or situation easily degrading into an even worse behavior or situation, resulting in a downward spiral.
Declaring that something leads to a slippery slope is a common tactic in fearmongering.
Following this definition, a "slippery-slope slippery slope" is a situation in which people accept baseless slippery-slope arguments too readily. This leads to the inevitable acceptance of dangerously ridiculous slippery-slope arguments.
"...but once you give a pass to seemingly reasonable evidence-free slippery-slope arguments, you end up with people arguing that state-subsidised health insurance leads to death panels. It's a slippery-slope slippery slope!"
- M.S.
"No, you can't have that stuff, it's junk"
The Economist
Nov 5th 2010
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.