the thin end of the wedge

So why not put in the thin end of the wedge?

This may well be the thin end of the wedge.

Your regiment's still the thin end of the wedge, right?

- "And this is just the thin end of the wedge!"

The distinction between good and bad blasphemy in itself is the thin end of the wedge.

I see this as the thin end of the wedge to force a common European tax policy on Ireland.

"Perhaps we are, in some way, the thin end of the wedge that will put an end to this madness."

This is going ahead, and is the thin end of the wedge to a privatized fire service.

All this makes me wonder whether this coup is merely the thin end of the wedge.

Racist jokes are the thin end of the wedge of racism.

'As long as it isn't the thin end of the wedge.

As I said earlier, that is the thin end of the wedge which brings us closer to the day of ruin.

The thin end of the wedge which would place yet another world under Cyclan domination.

Opponants say legalisation would be the thin end of the wedge.

While I agree this is the thin end of the wedge, this isn't a right/left issue, its a civil liberty position.

We're not making the thin end of the wedge, we're going to support the motion from London Region.

"Our mission is the thin end of the wedge, so it is very important that we play strictly by the regulations.

The hierarchy feared the move as the thin end of the wedge of secularism and the totalitarian state.

"You're on the Biology faculty as an associate, it's the thin end of the wedge, Nicholas.

I think I am finally starting to recognise the thin end of the wedge when it appears...

This is only the thin end of the wedge, as the number of cases of this kind will continue to rise.

José and Manuel-and that barber in the fourth chair-were the thin end of the wedge.

The trouble is that it's the thin end of the wedge - if no-ball fixing doesn't matter much, what does matter?

In fact, Borujerdi's intervention probably sprang from an instinctive feeling that this could be the thin end of the wedge.

This will be the thin end of the wedge leading to means-testing to use the NHS.