• give an inch
• move an inch

budgeaninch (third-person singular simple presentbudges an inch,present participlebudging an inch,simple past and past participlebudged an inch)

1. (figuratively,informal,chiefly in the negative) To make any change in one's position or opinion, no matter how small.

Note that some of the captions below are missing a slash sign due to technical restrictions: there is no such expression asgive budge an inch.

• “not give budge an inch” (US) / “not give budge an inch” (UK) inMacmillan English Dictionary.
• “give/budge an inch”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “not give budge an inch” inLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English,Longman.
• “not give budge move an inch”, inCambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

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