eat into
fret
rankle
grate *

I will be eating my way into the new year.

She became interested in eating problems as a window into a woman's experience.

Giving out the data for free would eat into their revenues.

He looked at his watch: this was eating into her evening work time.

I learned not to wait for my victim to die, but to eat into him while talking to me.

The little details ate into my time at every opportunity.

Of course, eating into the deficit from the first 6 games with another away win would be ok.

And I mean eat, not process into something that resembles food.

And the look on his face had eaten into my memory, until I?

Worse, the firm must pay off a $1 million note by next March, which could further eat into its capital.