bit by bit

Definitions

A small amount at a time

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“There’s a sick comfort in reciting this litany of defects. Maybe I sensed them at the time but I never put⟳ them into words. Now that I suspect⟳ he’s a cunt, however, I’m hauling them out and examining them in the pitiless light⟳ of day. This happens at the end⟳ of every relationship, I’ve found, but in this particular case I have⟳ an even more urgent need⟳ to destroy⟳ my lover’s loveableness, bit by bit, until it’s entirely gone.”

“Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect⟳ a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train⟳ timetable unravelled. A trip⟳ beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end⟳.”

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