inch by inch

Meaning

1. very slowly and with great care or difficulty

   She crawled forward inch by inch.

In the movies · 5

• We move through the mine inch by inch until we find AmonBlack Adam2022
• Inch by bloody inch if necessary.Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox2013
• Like an inch. Specifically, uh, an inch.Rye Lane2023
• Six inches forward and five inches back I got a-- I got an angry inchHedwig and the Angry Inch2001
• Inch by nerve-racking inch, using only their fingertips to grasp razor sharp edges.The Dawn Wall2017

Learn it in full scenes

• Rye Lane2023
  • Yas Teases Dom at His Gallery Show
  • Yas Buys Nathan's Photo at the Show
  • Dom and Yas Meet in Peckham
• The Dawn Wall2017
  • Tommy's Father Toughens Him Up
  • Tommy Caldwell Wins Snowbird
  • Climbers Taken Hostage in Kyrgyzstan

From the same entry

• every inch
• give an inch
• not budge an inch
• within an inch of doing
• not trust an inch