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dribs and drabs
plural noun
- small and usually irregular amounts:
He repaid the loan in dribs and drabs.
dribs and drabs
/ ɪ /
plural noun
- small sporadic amounts
Idioms and Phrases
Bits and pieces, negligible amounts, as in There's not much left, just some dribs and drabs of samples . The noun drib is thought to be a shortening of driblet , for “drop” or “tiny quantity,” dating from the early 1700s, whereas drab meaning “a small sum of money” dates from the early 1800s.Example Sentences
While we may take solace from dribs and drabs of news that the worst Musk excesses are finally facing some pushback, the overwhelming mood from within the halls of the federal government is one of mourning.
Hopefully, more will come in, because they tend to come in in dribs and drabs over the first few months of the year.
“It took us two years to do 19 episodes. They would pick us up — six here, five there — in these little dribs and drabs. It was very, very difficult,” Herskovitz said.
And it's not until more trickles of information started pouring out in dribs and drabs that I started to wonder, "What's the bigger story here, and what actually happened?"
From there, the hacked emails were released by WikiLeaks in dribs and drabs.
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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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