Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
KieliKäännökset
ranskaà-coups, à-coup
suomisysäyksittäin

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (idiomatic) Activity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions.

Esimerkit

  • Progress in this project has come in fits and starts.
  • We act by fits and starts, like drowning men,
  • But just peep up, and then pop down again.
  • I spent the night in fits and starts, getting up and lying down full twenty times, and dreaming the same dream over and over again.
  • It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors.
  • Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines US military planning and risks the gains made by US troops.

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