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chip away at

They're going to keep chipping away at us, and you're playing right into their hands.

He's going to start chipping away at my ability to process language.

It was a china woman, but the face had been chipped away.

But the environmental groups are chipping away, and want it all.

They had spent the best part of a year chipping away at it, to little real effect.

"The last thing they want is to have anyone chipping away at the foundation of their business," he said.

They've been chipping away at the Constitution for a while.

And for 12 years he chipped away at making his documentary.

During the past three weeks they have chipped away at our heroes.

She has chipped away at the debt from the store.