chip away

Far more likely, the Government will chip away at social security.

We'll chip away at that over the next few years.

We can't just chip away at this kind of number.

Maybe the head was able to chip away at it.

The program is the latest to try to chip away at this problem.

I mean, you chip away with absolutely no idea of what the final thing will look like.

He began it in 1987, chipping away late at night.

"We will not chip away at our defense program," he said.

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

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

Students say they use every possible minute to chip away at extra work.

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

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

The boys chipped away and for the first time led, 14-12.

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

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

One method has been to chip away at labor costs.

But the Irish chipped away, taking the lead for good at 51-50.

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

Some of the glacier between them had been chipped away.

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

Two decades can chip away at a man as he slides into middle age.

"You just expect to chip away a little and maybe go home early.

She has chipped away at the debt from the store.