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Discover LudwigThe phrase "grind down on" is not technically correct English, as it does not have a clear meaning as written.
Depending on the context, you may be able to use it to mean something like "put pressure on" or "work hard at". For example, you could say "I'm grinding down on my studies to get ready for the exam."
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Michael Murphy added, lest anyone in the room had missed his point, that Mr McCain "is more than happy to make a deal and grind down on that stuff".With bitter memories of the Hillarycare debacle, Big Pharma and the insurance industry certainly do not want Hillary Clinton as president.
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Ms Yacimovich focused her attacks on the government's economic policies, on the grinding down of the middle-class, on the failure of Israel's hi-tech prosperity to trickle down to the wider public.
Having been ground down on the battlefield, they would presumably agree to a favourable peace settlement.
"I'm of the opinion that there's a kind of grinding down of the workforce going on, eventually leading to privatisation of certain aspects of the NHS," Dr Gilbert said.
Failure to act in some way, however, could condemn the economy to a glacial pace of recovery on the one hand and the continued grinding down of the middle class on the other.
The leaves were air-dried, grinding down to small pieces.
Additionally, the Ge STCS was ground down to an average nominal thickness of 100 µm using SiC grinding paper with successive grain sizes 2000 and 4000 on a grinding machine LaboPol-21 (Struers).
He also felt that if he could continue to grind down civilian will on the Union side, the North would grant the Confederacy its independence.
They slowly chipped away at England's overnight lead of 181, showing the necessary application to grind down the bowlers on a wicket which offered little assistance.
Cemetery Hill in the woods has stranded many runners over the years and asphalt paths on the course grind down runners' legs.
But there are times when it grinds down on me too".
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