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wiggle room

noun

  1. room to maneuver; latitude.


wiggle room

noun

  1. informal.
    scope for freedom of action or thought
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wiggle room1

First recorded in 1985–90
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Jeanne Husing, 84, said she has wiggle room in her budget with outside income in addition to her Social Security payments, but she worries for families that don’t have as much flexibility.

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Low economic growth and higher borrowing costs have eroded the small amount of wiggle room the chancellor left herself to meet these rules in October's budget.

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But whether everyday costs allow those renters enough wiggle room to build up alternative streams of equity is another question.

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Trump did give himself some wiggle room by challenging Arab states to come up with their own plan for postwar Gaza.

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“It’s making an already hard situation very, very difficult. We don’t have a lot of wiggle room in the state of California to be messing around with our water supply like this.”

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