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bit by bit
Idioms and Phrases
Also, little by little . Gradually, by small degrees, slowly. For example, The squirrels dug up the lawn bit by bit, till we had almost no grass , or Little by little he began to understand what John was getting at . The first term was first recorded in 1849, although bit in the sense of “small amount†is much older; the variant dates from the 1400s.Example Sentences
While the garden is rooted in local culture, built bit by bit from the flotsam and jetsam of Los Angeles locations and plants native to the ecology, the programming is more global in approach.
Driving into Mandalay, the massive scale of the destruction from last Friday's earthquake revealed itself bit by bit.
"A ladder appeared, three people appeared and started stripping the roof, so I thought well they know what they are doing, and bit by bit all the slates disappeared," he said.
Their envy does pour out immediately but strains forth bit by bit, pressing through the narrow gaps in their bleached smiles.
The Uruguayan rugby players stranded atop a barren Argentinian mountain range didn’t stop being themselves when they started eating each other; they were worn down, bit by bit, until the unthinkable became normal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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