give them an inch and they'll take an ell
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Archaic form of give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
— I will yet thrive, (I say), as good is an ynch / As an ell. Yee can, (quoth shee), make it so well, / For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell, / Till both ell and inch be gone, and we in det.
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