Meaning Of The Word In fits and starts

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in fits and starts
phrase: Something that happens in fits and starts or by fits and starts keeps happening and then stopping again.

in fits and starts in British English
in spasmodic spells; irregularly
not continuously, but regularly stopping and then starting again

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