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*fits and starts

with irregular movement; with much stopping and starting. (*Typically: by ~; in ~; with ~.) Somehow, they got the job done in fits and starts. By fits and starts, the old car finally got us to town.

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The snow in places was up to his knees, and the sledge moved by fits and starts with his every movement. Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context This was equal to John's most sanguine expectations; but he would have preferred Mr Haredale's looking at him when he spoke, as if he really did thank him, to his walking up and down, speaking by fits and starts, often stopping with his eyes fixed on the ground, moving hurriedly on again, like one distracted, and seeming almost unconscious of what he said or did. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context			fish story fish up out of fishing fishing expedition fist fit fit and trim fit around fit as a fiddle fit for fit for a king fit in fit in with fit like a glove fit on fit on the back of a postage stamp fit out fit the bill fit to fit to be tied fit to drop fit to kill fit together fit up fit with fits and starts fittin five five-finger discount fix fix an animal fix for fix on fix over fix up fix wagon fix with fixed fixed up fixin fixin to do fizz up fizzle out flack out flag flag down flake flake away flake down flake off flake off of			fitness walking Fitness Works at Work Fitness Yoga Canada Fitness, Fun & Friendship Fitness-Based Experiment fitnesses fitnesses fitnesses fitnesses FITNMR FITNR FITNR Fito FITOC Fitosanitarne Uprave Republike Slovenije FITP FITPAS FITPO FITQS FITR FITREP Fitri FITRON fits fits fits fits fits fits fits fits and starts Fits file fits into fits into fits into fits into fits into fits like a glove fits like a glove fits like a glove fits out fits out fits out fits out fits out fits the bill fits the bill fits the bill fits the bill fits the bill fits up fits up fits up fits up fits up Fits Viewer FITSA FITSAF FITSC FITSCC FITSE

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