dribs and drabs
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dribs and drabs
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From drib (“a drop”) and drab (“a small amount”).
noun drips and drabs
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A series of negligible amounts.
The tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state [of] misery in which it now is; and the tea drinking, which is carried on by "dribs" and "drabs;" by pence and farthings going out at a time; this miserable practice has been gradually introduced by the growing weight of t
Similar: bits and pieces, odds and ends, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, gatherum
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noun a series of negligible amounts
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