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slippery English
Meaning slippery meaning
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Topics slippery topics
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Simple sentences
The politician is as slippery as an eel!
Watch your step. The floor is slippery.
Watch your step, as the passageway is slippery.
Driving on a slippery road can lead to a car wreck.
The slippery snake slithered right out of his hand.
Slippery slugs slithered sideways down the slope.
Tom is slippery as an eel.
The hallway is slippery, so watch your step.
Careful! The floor is slippery.
The floor is very slippery.
The street is slippery.
Because of yesterday's heavy snow, the ground is very slippery. As soon as I stepped outside, I slipped and fell on my bottom.
The oil made the floor slippery and caused his sudden fall.
The road has frozen and it's now slippery.
The road was muddy and slippery.
The road is wet and it's slippery.
The floor is slippery, so be careful.
Be careful. The floor is slippery.
Movie subtitles
Have you been motoring on them slippery roads, sir?
Those slippery rugs are out.
Of course, there's only five or six poisonous kinds, but there are a lot of the long, squirmy, slippery, slimy ones.
The snow freezes on the boot, the warm room melts the ice, and the little piece of slippery ice lies in wait for the hurrying foot.
He's slippery.
Every time she walks on a slippery sidewalk, is near something that can fall, drives an automobile - anything that could result in an accidental death - her life is in danger.
This godson of ours is starting life slippery enough without greasing him.
Especially in this weather, it's slippery.
You're slippery as the eels on the menu here.
Slippery as a greased hog, ain't you?
Careful, it's slippery.
Careful of these tiles, they're slippery.
Someone who's slippery and evasive.
Slippery as a skating rink.
They looked like slippery customers.
Those slippery rugs are out. A guy could break his neck on those.
It took us 8 hours to get here. And roads are slippery.
Slippery.
It's so slippery even the cats can't keep their feet.
Blood makes the road slippery.
The roads are slippery.
You're pretty slippery yourself.
A slippery character, Mr. Randolph.
Be careful, the cliffs are slippery.
Look out, it's slippery.
Careful, it's slippery!
Slippery bastard!
He'd been going down the slippery slope for a while, poor Cosimo!
It's slippery. I won't make it, you know.
News and current affairs
One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe's politicians have started down this slippery slope.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
Indeed, two types of slippery slopes - logical and sociological - exist.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
You can slide down the sociological slippery slope from one practice to the other - even if the two are conceptually different - just because the existence of one creates a social climate receptive to the other.
Even though I do not believe in a slippery slope from therapeutic to reproductive cloning, a society's laws should give voice to its values.
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
Critics warn of a slippery slope.
Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho-sexual issues; in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.
Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.
The definition of torture is notoriously slippery, but we have known for some time now that the former president was being, shall we say, economical with the truth.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?
Taken to its extreme, America's accusations risk pushing the world's two largest economies down the slippery slope of trade frictions, protectionism, or something even worse.
The world is on a slippery slope toward nationalism and exclusion.
The situation in Libya, we are told, is too dangerous; Germany's government doesn't want to get caught on a slippery slope and eventually have to commit ground troops in a civil war.
Well, if you're afraid of slippery slopes, stay out of government, because balancing on all sorts of slippery slopes is what the job is about.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan's relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.