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hammer away at
Idioms and Phrases
Keep at something continuously, as in The reporters hammered away at the candidate . This phrase employs hammer in the sense of 鈥渂eat repeatedly,鈥 a usage dating from the mid-1600s.Example Sentences
While he does continue to hammer away at Drake personally, the power of Lamar was always his ability to make a single story about an individual feel like an analogy about all of us.
They also never neglect the power of narrative and nationalism and always hammer away at their own supposed superiority as lovers and protectors of the nation.
On immigration, Biden needs to explain the historical problem, put the current 鈥渃risis鈥 in perspective and continue to hammer away at people like House Speaker Mike Johnson who have blocked bipartisan legislation needed to help fix the problem.
High above a railway bridge spanning a foaming river just outside the Arctic Circle, Finnish construction workers hammer away at a project that will smooth the connections from NATO's Atlantic coastline in Norway to its new border with Russia.
Hammer away at this week鈥檚 Slate News Quiz.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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