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chew away

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chew something away
to gnaw something off; to gnaw at something until it's all gone. You can see what's left of it. Most of it has been chewed away by some animal. Your puppy chewed away the top of my shoe!
See also: away, chew


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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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