by+fits+and+starts
11by fits and starts — or[jerks] {adv. phr.} With many stops and starts, a little now and a little more later; not all the time; irregularly. * /He had worked on the invention by fits and starts for several years./ * /You will never get anywhere if you study just by… …
12by fits and starts — or[jerks] {adv. phr.} With many stops and starts, a little now and a little more later; not all the time; irregularly. * /He had worked on the invention by fits and starts for several years./ * /You will never get anywhere if you study just by… …
13in fits and starts — if something happens in fits and starts, it often stops and then starts again. Replies are arriving in fits and starts …
14in fits and starts — If you do something in fits and starts, you do it in an irregular manner, often stopping and starting again. You ll never make progress in English if you work in fits and starts …
15in fits and starts — by fits and starts she writes in fits and starts yet manages to complete a new book almost every year Syn: spasmodically, intermittently, sporadically, erratically, irregularly, fitfully, haphazardly …
16by fits and starts — See in fits and starts …
17by fits and starts — ► in (or by) fits and starts with irregular bursts of activity. Main Entry: ↑fit …
18in fits and starts — ► in (or by) fits and starts with irregular bursts of activity. Main Entry: ↑fit …
19in (or by) fits and starts — with irregular bursts of activity. → be fitted with …
20by or in fits and starts — idi by or in fits and starts, at irregular intervals; intermittently …
