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!

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You can also push the snake and chew away at the clump until the snake is driven through it. How to Use a Plumbing Snake by A Nutt / Home based business community It was also kids screaming and squealing at the top of their lungs as Chinn lifted the doomed cockroach out of a plastic container, turned it over, packed its squirming feet down, stuck it up into his right cheek and began to chew away as his eyes closed tightly, his face scrunched up and he looked as if he was about to, uh, lose his cookies. ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Not only does the acetic acid eat away at the surface of the object that's deteriorating, its vapors can chew away at any artifacts nearby. Long live plastics: with plastics in museums decomposing, a new ... by Perkins, Sid / Science News			check through check up check up on check with Check, please checks and balances checkup cheek cheek by jowl cheer cheer for cheer on cheer to the echo cheer up cheese cheese off cheese-paring cheesed off cherry cherry-pick cheshire chest chew chew ass chew at chew away chew cud chew off chew on chew out chew over chew own tobacco chew the cud chew the fat chew up chicken chicken feed chicken out chicken out on chicken-hearted chickens come home to roost chide for chief chief cook and bottle washer child child is father of the man child's play children Children and fools tell the truth children should be seen and not heard chill			chevvy Chevvys Chevvys chevy chevy chevy Chevy and GMC International Truck Club Chevy Avalanche Fan Club of North America Chevy Celebrity Club of America Chevy Chase Chevy Chase Chevy Chase Baptist Church Chevy Chase Citizens Association Chevy Chase Financial Services Chevy Chase Plaza Children's Center Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Chevy Chase United Methodist Church Chevy Truck Fan Club of North America Chevys Chevys chew chew chew chew chew chew ass chew ass chew ass chew ass chew at chew away chew cud chew off chew off or out chew on chew on chew out chew out chew out chew over chew over chew over chew own tobacco chew the cud chew the cud chew the cud chew the fat chew the fat chew the fat chew the rag chew the rag chew the rag chew up chew up chew up Chew, Benjamin Chew, Goldberger, Low and Nambu chew-'n'-spew chew-in record, functional chew-in technique chew-in technique

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