budge an inch
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budge an inch (third-person singular simple present budges an inch, present participle budging an inch, simple past and past participle budged an inch)
- (figuratively, informal, chiefly in the negative) To make any change in one's position or opinion, no matter how small.
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Note that some of the captions below are missing a slash sign due to technical restrictions: there is no such expression as give budge an inch.
- “not give budge an inch” (US) / “not give budge an inch” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “give/budge an inch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “not give budge an inch” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “not give budge move an inch”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.