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Definition of Fits and starts
1. Noun. Repeated bursts of activity. "They worked in fits and starts"
Definition of Fits and starts
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Activity which is intermittent, variable in intensity, and prolonged by interruptions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fits And Starts
Literary usage of Fits and starts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sobriquets and Nicknames by Albert Romer Frey (1887)
"... ligible by fits and starts) than any Englishman, except, perhaps, Richard
Baxter, who is said to have published three hundred and sixty-five plus one, ..."
2. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"... &c. kept in without the raisins of these sorts |l by fits and starts, to be
undecided in )our hall-moons, or uprn their taces. ..."
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