the thin end of the wedge

Meaning

1. an event or action that is the beginning of sth more serious and / or unpleasant

In the movies · 1

• This is the thin end of a very fat wedge, sir.The Gentlemen2020

Learn it in full scenes

• The Gentlemen2020
  • Fletcher Pitches His Story to Ray
  • Mickey and Matthew's Dinner Standoff
  • Mickey Pitches His Weed Empire

From the same entry

• be skating on thin ice
• disappear, vanish, into thin air
• have a thin time
• out of thin air
• thin on top
• a thin skin
• thick on the ground
• walk a fine line
• spread yourself too thin
• through thick and thin
• wear thin