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Granting someone a limited concession will encourage them to take greater liberties.

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give them an inch and they'll take a mile

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Source Word

give them an inch and they'll take a mile

Granting someone a limited concession will encourage them to take greater liberties.

Japanese Meaning

ほんの小さな譲歩をすれば、相手が次第にさらに多くを要求するようになる。 / 少しの恩恵を与えると、相手がそれを利用してより大きな便宜を図ろうとする。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私たちは、小さな譲歩をすると相手がどんどん図に乗ると分かっていたので、一切譲歩しませんでした。

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Granting someone a limited concession will encourage them to take greater liberties.

O the tyranny of aristocracy!—give it a furlong, and it will take a mile,—a veto stopped me once from going to Brussels: and now comes a Lettre de cachet ordering me to Paris.

(With "furlong" being probable wordplay on the usual form.)

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