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one by one



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, one at a time . Individually in succession, as in The ducklings jumped into the pond one by one , or One at a time they went into the office . Formerly also put as one and one and one after one , this idiom dates from about a.d. 1000.
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Example Sentences

Eventually, Danny breaks down the door of the next building along and, one by one, he pulls the children to safety.

From BBC

But, one by one, procedural and legal challenges assured that those cases against Trump would not be tried until after the election.

Over martinis at Figaro, my friends pull out their lipsticks and glosses one by one.

In the past, the 23-year-old has declared she wants to "change the idol industry", breaking down its "strict standards one by one".

From BBC

“Then all our golfing friends left, one by one.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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