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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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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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