Such policies would leave them on a drip feed of dependence for ever.

Karen Tandy's bed was surrounded with surgical equipment, and there was a clear drip feed going into her right arm.

Baker was involved in a serious car crash, which meant that he needed life-saving surgery and spent over a month on a drip feed.

A 'drip feed rather than a torrent', he says.

I could never have hacked it on a weekly drip feed.

Theres been a steady drip feed of regular stories to demonize just about about everyone who isn't a home counties Tory voter.

No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed.

"It's like they've got you on a drip feed of sugar," my son said.

The right wing press provide a constant drip feed of 'work shy benefit scroungers' stories about the disabled.

To respond, several governments had to use a fiscal defibrillator on the economy and put it on a drip feed.