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Chivel
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To
chip
away at something slowly.As if
one
were hewing a large
stone
as a sculptor would
Q. "How is the .
dissertation
going?"
A. "
Slowly
, I
keep
chivelling away at it."
Chivel
by
Eager Andy
February 28, 2013