by+fits+and+starts
21by/in fits and starts — see ↑fit, 4 • • • Main Entry: ↑start …
22fits and starts — Synonyms and related words: ague, arrhythmia, brokenness, bumpiness, capriciousness, chattering, choppiness, chorea, cold shivers, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, eccentricity, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fluctuation,… …
23by fits and starts — phrasal see by fits …
24in fits and starts — phrasal see by fits …
25by fits and starts — adv. sporadically, in an hasty and irregular manner …
26in fits and starts — according to his mood; intermittently …
27by\ fits\ and\ jerks — • by fits and starts • by fits and 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… …
28in/by fits and starts — SPASMODICALLY, intermittently, sporadically, erratically, irregularly, fitfully, haphazardly. → fit …
29by fits — or by fits and starts or in fits and starts phrasal in an impulsive and irregular manner < construction proceeded by fits and starts > …
30by fits — adverb or by fits and starts : at intervals : impulsively and irregularly : fitfully, intermittently slow wandering footsteps that halted and came on by fits Pearl Buck Japanese expansion proceeded not according to any coldly calculated master… …