The Slippery Slope
Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4090
Literal first, and old. The figurative use belongs to twentieth century argument, where a slippery slope is the claim that one small step makes the next one inevitable, which is sometimes true and often a fallacy.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.