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The phrase "chip away" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically means to gradually reduce or erode something. For example: Over time, the constant rain chipped away at the old stone wall.
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chip away
verb
To reduce or weaken bit by bit.
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We have to chip away, chip away, chip away".
Chip away, every day.
Can Seattle chip away at this lead?
Moxon: "Yes, you just chip away".
"You chip away at them," he said.
Over time it could chip away at patronage networks.
It would chip away at Syrians' entrenched mistrust of Israel.
That suggests he might chip away at it.
"We chip away at the high-priority orders," he said.
You had to figure out ways to chip away".
We go shift by shift; we just chip away.
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