0 the beginning of a harmful development:
It is the thin end of the wedge.
This seems to be the thin end of the wedge.
We are concerned about whether this is the thin end of the wedge.
This is not, as some have described it, the thin end of the wedge.
It is all very well to say that this is the thin end of the wedge.
Not for one moment did they think it was the thin end of the wedge.
There is, first, the argument about the thin end of the wedge.
But surely the worst of all possible uses of the thin end of the wedge argument is that used today.
