piece by piece

English

Phrase

piece by piece

1. In gradual stages.

   Synonyms: bit by bit, little by little

   Rather than tackling the entire project at once, work on each assignment piece by piece.

   • 1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an important Malayan Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:

     When the war with Japan broke out the F.M.S.R. had a busy time, but it could not make up for the lack of other communications or for general shortage of military equipment, so, piece by piece, it fell into Japanese hands.

Translations

bit by bit — see bit by bit