wriggle room

English

Noun

wriggle room (uncountable)

  1. Wiggle room.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141:
      This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.
    • 2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41:
      Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.
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