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.

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