I looked it up and the strangest result appears: camel’s nose.
Apparently it’s a Victorian era, and Victorian made, idiom about an Arabian idiom of letting just the camel’s nose in the tent, which eventually results in the entire camel being under it.
Give them an inch and they will take a yard/mile? Quite wordy I know.
I looked it up and the strangest result appears: camel’s nose.
Apparently it’s a Victorian era, and Victorian made, idiom about an Arabian idiom of letting just the camel’s nose in the tent, which eventually results in the entire camel being under it.