brick by brick

Steadily and continuously in a step-by-step manner, especially the creation or destruction of something. Likened to erecting (or demolishing) a house or other building one brick at a time. We built this business from nothing, brick by brick, until we had the largest retail chain in the city. Lawmakers have been tearing down the existing immigration legislation brick by brick.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aghavni	-	Armenian
Yishmeray	-	Biblical Hebrew
Ignatius	ig-NAY-shəs (English)	Late Roman
Slamet	SLAH-met	Indonesian, Javanese
Hirune	-	Basque
AnnbjØRg	-	Norwegian