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单词 inch by inch
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inch by inch
P2. by inches, inch by inch: by small degrees, by little and little, very gradually, bit by bit.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > gradually or in stages
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 40 All swearing..They'l giue him death by Inches . View more context for this quotation
1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris i. sig. B3 They were forced to..reforme by inches.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 66 No, don't kill him at once..starve him gradually inch by inch.
1719 F. Hare Church-authority Vindicated 27 To dispute the ground inch by inch.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 162 Wasting away, and dying, as they say, by inches.
1869 F. B. A. Wilberforce Sketches Lives Domin. Missionaries Japan 195 All these four martyrs expired by inches, after a series of torments.
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