Übersetzungen für „whittle away at“ im Englisch » Russisch-Wörterbuch

whittle away at VERB trans

1. whittle away at (take little bits off):

whittle away at

ста́чивать

whittle away at

обстру́гивать

2. whittle away at (gradually decrease):

whittle away at

уменьша́ть

whittle away at

своди́ть на нет

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Englisch

Either a death by a thousand cuts, where you whittle away at their funding, or their support, even their office space.

abcnews.go.com

District officials were able to whittle away at that list over the summer, as others retired or quit, and financial projections at some schools changed.

sfpublicpress.org

The songwriting process is sort of like automatic writing for us; make up some gibberish to go with a tune and then whittle away at it until meaning emerges.

www.digitaljournal.com

Watch out for high mutual fund and management fees, which can whittle away at your savings.

www.afr.com

It can be a daunting task to whittle away at pages of unread e-mails, she says, a chore that can leave you wishing you hadn't come back to the office.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Just stand in a control point to take control of it and whittle away at your opposition.

business.financialpost.com

He taught me that my love is beautiful even though he can not receive it because it wants to whittle away at the shut-door of his own heart.

www.huffingtonpost.com

Organizational changes continued to whittle away at the wing's strength in 1966 and 1967.

en.wikipedia.org

He delicately uses the chainsaw, feathering it against the trunk to whittle away at the piece.

www.theobserver.ca

Then you whittle away at them with interactions or attacks.

www.kotaku.com.au