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Have you ever heard of "give an inch, take a mile"? Today is a trivial thing. Tomorrow could be something more serious but then, it would be too late to compla
by aspaviento 6y ago
Have you ever heard of "give an inch, take a mile"?
Today is a trivial thing. Tomorrow could be something more serious but then, it would be too late to complain about it (and today social media is the best example, you can see how peoples' lives are ruined by things taken out of context or exaggerating them).
- quicklime 6y agoI have heard that phrase, but I've only ever heard it used in cases like these (and never the other way around): - parents talking about children - teachers talking about students - management talking about laborers - rich people talking about poor people I hope you see what the problem is.
- aspaviento 6y agoI have heard it also between friends when one of them is too nice and the other one pushes continously to do whatever he/she wants.
- quicklime 6y agoYes, I’ve heard it used in abusive relationships too.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoThe list of changes already includes innocuous terms like "sanity check", "grandfathered", and "dummy value" so, frankly, it's pretty hard to make the case that the "take a mile" isn't already happening.