| 释义 |
take a bite out of informal Reduce by a significant amount: commissions that can take a bite out of your retirement funds...- It is not clear precisely how long that period was, but it clearly takes a bite out of that 9 month period.
- Energy costs are taking a bite out of household budgets, especially for lower-income families.
- It must have seemed like Groundhog Day, as problems at his American West Coast subsidiary Pacificorp took a bite out of the Glasgow utility's share price.
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