| 单词 | chip away at something |
| 释义 | chip away at something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchip away at something phrasal verbEFFECTIVEto gradually make something less effective or destroy itWriters such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society.Fears about the future chipped away at her sense of well-being. → chip→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuschip away at • From the breakers beyond, nightmare thoughts chipped away at her security.• The dismantling began on the night of November 9 as hundreds of Berliners chipped away at some of the more decorative chunks.• Oystercatchers may wedge the shells into a crevice and chip away at the lip.• The best rewriting method in this case is the simplest: by correcting one problem you chip away at the others.• Meanwhile, his defense lawyers chipped away at the prosecution's arguments.• In like manner, but without the risk, Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians.• In therapy, we chip away at this, bit by bit.• For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie, slowly nagging it into submission. |
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