Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
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Inch
/ɪnt͡ʃ/
Synonyms for "inch" (114 found)
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14 entriesadd a fractionfractional inchhalf inchinch backwardinch forwardmeasure to quarter inchnarrow intervalone eighth inchone sixteenth inchquarter inchreduce errorrefine estimateslide one unitsubtract a fraction
Collocations
10 entrieshalf inchinch along number lineinch by inchinch closer to solutioninch rulerinch scaleinch toward zeroinch up measurementinches longone inch
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28 total sentences available.
The elephant won't move an inch.
Source: tatoeba (46254)
Give him an inch and he will take a yard.
Source: tatoeba (73244)
There was a car accident and the traffic didn't move an inch.
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