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==Quotations illustrating use==
==Quotations illustrating use==
===Literal===
===Literal===
:Even when I was on this mare, she would poise herself on the top of a block of granite, with her four feet close together in the manner of a goat and she leaped across crevasses of unknown depth after having to go down a slippery slope on one side, and when, on the other, she had nothing to jump upon except steeply-inclined blocks of stone.—"Himalayan Ponies," ''The New York Times,'' March 14, 1875, p. 4
:They stood, who saw the future come
:They stood, who saw the future come
:On through the fight’s delirium!
:On through the fight’s delirium!
:Amid the cheers of Christendom.
:Amid the cheers of Christendom.
::Will Henry Thompson (1888), "The High Tide at Gettyburg"<ref>Thompson, Will Henry (1888), [http://www.bartleby.com/248/995.html The High Tide at Gettyburg], in Stedman, Edmund Clarence (ed) (1900), ''An American Anthology, 1787–1900''</ref><ref>The poem made an appearance in the ''Boston Daily Globe,'' May 30, 1903, p. 6, as no. 671 in a series of "Poems You Ought To Know."</ref>
::Will Henry Thompson (1888), "The High Tide at Gettyburg"<ref>Thompson, Will Henry (1888), [http://www.bartleby.com/248/995.html The High Tide at Gettyburg], in Stedman, Edmund Clarence (ed) (1900), ''An American Anthology, 1787–1900''</ref><ref>The poem made an appearance in the ''Boston Daily Globe,'' May 30, 1903, p. 6, as no. 671 in a series of "Poems You Ought To Know."</ref>
===Metaphorical===
===Metaphorical===
:The cry for the rates in addition to the taxes has been going up from the clerical for years. But they were warned by the late Archbishop of Canterbury<ref>Presumably a reference to Frederick Temple (1821-1902)</ref> not to attempt it, for as surely as they succeeded they would lose their control of their sectarian schools. They would be on the "slippery slope," he said, in a characteristic phrase. However, they have taken the plunge, and the Education Acts of 1902 and 1903 are the results.—John Clifford, 1905<ref>"Clifford, John (190-) ("The Rev. John Clifford, D.D."), "Passive Resistance in England and Wales." ''The North American Review,'' 1905, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0mtYjU29qkWCiIvihryzCSI&id=sF0CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA436&lpg=PA436&dq=%22slippery+slope%22&as_brr=1#PPA436,M1 p. 436]
:The cry for the rates in addition to the taxes has been going up from the clerical for years. But they were warned by the late Archbishop of Canterbury<ref>Presumably a reference to Frederick Temple (1821-1902)</ref> not to attempt it, for as surely as they succeeded they would lose their control of their sectarian schools. They would be on the "slippery slope," he said, in a characteristic phrase. However, they have taken the plunge, and the Education Acts of 1902 and 1903 are the results.—John Clifford, 1905<ref>"Clifford, John (190-) ("The Rev. John Clifford, D.D."), "Passive Resistance in England and Wales." ''The North American Review,'' 1905, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0mtYjU29qkWCiIvihryzCSI&id=sF0CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA436&lpg=PA436&dq=%22slippery+slope%22&as_brr=1#PPA436,M1 p. 436]