in/by fits and starts
If something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again:
Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Rarely & infrequently
- (every) now and then/again idiom
- blue
- ever and anon
- every
- few
- fit
- infrequent
- isolated
- occasional
- occasionally
- odd
- odd jobs
- once
- once in a blue moon idiom
- one-shot
- rarely
- seldom
- ship
- sometimes
- stop-and-go
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