Meanings
nounwriggle room (uncountable)
- uncountableWiggle room.
This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 1411 more example
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.
2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41
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