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, chiefly in the negative) To make any change in one's position or opinion, no matter how small.
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- “not give budge an inch” (US) / “not give budge an inch” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “give/budge%20an%20inch”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “not give budge an inch” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “not give budge move an inch” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.