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trickle down

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trickle down (to someone or something)
1. Lit. [for a liquid] to seep or dribble downward to reach someone or something. The water trickled down the wall to the floor. It trickled down very slowly.
2. Fig. [for something] to be distributed to someone or something in little bits at a time. The results of the improved economy trickled down to people at lower-income levels. Information about what happened finally trickled down to me.
See also: trickle


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I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort.
Here and there a ball still sticks in a wall, and from it iron tears trickle down and discolor the stone.
He gave a little gasp, and the tears began to trickle down his round cheeks.
 
 
 
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