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
Elpidius	-	Late Greek (Latinized)
Cyryl	TSI-ril	Polish
Angelino	-	Italian, Spanish
Ignacio	eeg-NAH-thyo (Spanish), eeg-NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Ceel	KAY:L	Dutch
Cveta	-	Serbian