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Idioms and Phrases

Begin to accomplish or consume something, as in I've barely made a dent in this pile of correspondence , or Help us put a dent in this pie . This metaphoric expression alludes to striking a blow to make a physical indentation in something.
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Ryan Johnson, interim chief executive of the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, is tasked with spending those dollars to finally make a dent in the region’s unrelenting homelessness crisis.

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And watching Guardiola at close quarters at Vitality Stadium as City came from behind to win 2-1 made a mockery of Guardiola's own assertion that not even winning the FA Cup could make up for failing to make a dent in the Premier League and Champions League.

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Halting every fentanyl package from Canada would hardly make a dent in the U.S. opioid epidemic, but Trump’s tariffs will have a major negative effect on individual consumers, industry and the relationship between the two countries, she said.

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“The one question holding back authorizing single-stair construction to help make a dent in the housing shortage has been questions about fire safety. That’s why we wanted to do empirical work here, and we found that there’s no trade-off with safety.”

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"If BT can make a dent in that then that would be really good."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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