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chew away

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? chew away
vilange herumkauen (→ at an or auf +dat); the rats have been chewing away at the woodworkdie Ratten haben am Holz herumgenagt
vt sepwegfressen


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Problem is, those buyers had to drive to work in Los Angeles or San Diego counties, and rising gas prices tend to chew away at paychecks just like rising house payments do.
And to ask, what did James Madison have in mind when he sponsored the Second Amendment, with its 27 fractious words, on which scholars and judges and legislators and editorialists and Charlton Heston chew away, year after year?
Some say it has secular problems: it is no longer relevant to younger generations; its usefulness has been trumped by new technology; it is the lowest member of the electronic food chain, as competing media slowly chew away its audience.
 
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