little by little
Adverb
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Adverb
- A small amount at a time.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC ↗:
- Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this.
- 1905, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in The Head of Kay's:
- Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.
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