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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
in/by fits and starts If something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then
starts again: Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts. fitful /'fit. PI
/ adjective often stopping and starting and not happening in a regular or ...
(13); Hawk (1); Sparrow-hawk; and Too low. By and by is easily said. 1855: Bohn,
334. By chance, as the man killed the devil. 1738: Swift, Polite Convers., Dial. I.
By fits and starts (or girds). 1620: Sanderson, Serm. ad Pop., i 145 (1681) (OED),
...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis,
2006
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
Of the two poems the young man submitted for the competition, the shorter was
by far the better. by/in fits and starts me hope, here- here □ Not withstanding
these protections, she could get none but broken sleep by fits and starts. □ If you
...
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By Fits and Starts [Poems ]
Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this ...
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
She will fit in well with those high- powered environmental lawyers. fit (you) like a
glove See at glove fit the bill See at bill see fit See at see fits in fits and starts, also
by fits and starts without regular activity or progress ♢ Though it moves along in ...
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
(also: in fits of laughter) laughing uncontrollably: As he walked in dressed like a
headache tablet, everyone was jn fits. in fits and starts , (also: by fits and starts) at
irregular intervals: There is no way of coping with orders that come jn fits and ...
One would approach at first warily through the shrub-oaks, running over the snow
crust by fits and starts like a leafblown by the wind, now a few paces this way,
with wonderful speed and waste of energy” (273). Not only do the squirrels and ...
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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
321.68 Colombe 4 27 I thought: no river starts but to some sea 405.26 Soul's
Trag. 1 .236 "Mainly, and not by fits and starts— 431.103 Eas.-Day 429 Woods
have in May, that starts up green 516.56 May and D. 14 Starts into life and light
again; ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes
and Synonymous Or Parallel ...
By fits, Irregularly, fitfully, by fits and starts. By fits and starts, By fits. Bygone, a.
Past, gone by. By hand, With the hands, by the use of the hands. By hook or by
crook, Somehow or other, one way or other, in one way or another, by any means
.
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To go by fits and starts 1885 Play title: Pits and Starts Jones, Wilton, and Walter
Browne. 1948 Consequently my schooling was a succession of fits and starts. (p.
266) Lion, Leon M. The Surprise of My Life: The Lesser Half of an Autobiography.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
2005
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More Volatility: A Positive Environment For Active Managers
Francis Gannon: The market continued to move forward in the first half, though at times it moved by fits and starts. The Russell 2000 Index ... «ValueWalk, 七月 15»
Redskins will go with 3 Offensive Playcallers in 2015
The coaches, the play caller and the personnel all have to be on the same page or the offense will be plagued by fits and starts. This is why that ... «Riggo's Rag, 七月 15»
New cancer drugs wake up sleeping killer T cells
For decades, immunotherapy to fight cancer has been marked by fits and starts. Part of the problem seems to lie in the checkpoints themselves ... «Science News, 六月 15»
B/R NBA's Max 5 Series: Is Jimmy Butler Really a Maximum …
... Butler really only has a one-year track record of working as a high-level offensive player, and that even that year was marked by fits and starts ... «Bleacher Report, 六月 15»
Lauding an inhuman treatment
In Kashmir, the assistance by fits and starts was mere trickle. 1000 crore was promised on September, the 8th 2014 after Modi's aerial survey. «GreaterKashmir.com, 六月 15»
Uttarakhand: A Manmade Disaster
Landslides continue to happen with a monotonous regularity and the 'char dham' yatra is reviving only by fits and starts. Reason: the unbridled ... «Free press journal, 六月 15»
Where are we heading? Some points to ponder
The country is progressing by fits and starts. When we close one outlet there is an opening elsewhere. This is not the way to develop the ... «The Sunday Times Sri Lanka, 六月 15»
Savannah council talks birds and bees
Chatham County adopted the task force's recommendations in September 2012. The city's process, though, has been marked by fits and starts, ... «Savannah Morning News, 六月 15»
Maine legislative leaders to resume budget talks after contentious day
... doors – have been marred by fits and starts. The tenor within the State House was decidedly gloomy and tense Wednesday, one week before ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, 六月 15»
Nuclear futures
Pakistan is increasingly power hungry and will become more so as the economy expands, albeit by fits and starts. Power is generated from a ... «The Express Tribune, 六月 15»