dribs and drabs

But he would only tell me things in dribs and drabs.

So the truth comes out in dribs and drabs, he added.

His parents provided a little help, but in dribs and drabs.

Do this as a team, not in dribs and drabs.

All the money that you hope to make always comes in dribs and drabs.

Would you like it all at once; or in dribs and drabs?

Good is done, to be sure, but in little dribs and drabs that aren't enough to cover the cost.

They have fixed up the house in dribs and drabs.

Indeed twenty minutes later the rest of the group turned up in dribs and drabs.

“News had come in dribs and drabs over the years.

Try to add them to the heap in dribs and drabs, though.

In dribs and drabs, people were starting not to laugh.

The rest of us have been arriving in dribs and drabs.

But things are now changing, albeit in dribs and drabs.

We had to pick it out in dribs and drabs."

It helps sustain interest, so you only tell people things in dribs and drabs.

Because information about the investigation comes in dribs and drabs, it is all too easy to lose track of where things stand.

After the war things happened in dribs and drabs.

I am sorry to say that information about the details only reaches me in dribs and drabs.

"But we're not going to be placated with just dribs and drabs."

They would go home in dribs and drabs, denied martyrdom.

"I sort of get things in dribs and drabs."

I get news from my garden in unsatisfying dribs and drabs.

What is that, a bob here and there, dribs and drabs.

I've done fine, but it's dribs and drabs: two here, one there.