chip away
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chip away
verb chips away · chipping away · chipped away
- To reduce or weaken bit by bit; often used with at. Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […]
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chip, away.
Siberian households used to store the little half-moon or triangular meat-stuffed dumplings in earthenware jars, buried in the ice; the ice was chipped away with an axe to get at the pelmeny jars.
Similar: plug away, beaver away
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verb to reduce or weaken bit by bit
| Español | mellarse |
|---|---|
| Français | ébrécher, réduire petit à petit |
| Română | ciopli |
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