Welcome to the English we speak with me Neil and me Jayin. We're explaining drip feed.

It can be used to describe giving something in small amounts little by little rather than all at once.

drip feed.

Hmm, I know about this in a medical context.

It's a way of feeding liquid medicine along a tube into someone's body, a drop at a time. The equipment is called a drip, and the

action of doing this is to drip feed.

Very good, that's right.

Drip feed is the action of doing this, so it's a verb.

But we can drip feed in a wider context too.

If we give information about something, just one fact at a time,

we can say we are drip feeding the information.

Ah yes, film companies sometimes do this.

They drip feed clips of a new film to get everyone interested

and excited about the launch of a new movie.

They do. It's a constant feed of information but in small amounts. But don't worry, I won't

drip feed you these examples. You can have them all at once.

We need to drip feed money into our savings account so we can minimize the risks of the stock market.

The singer drip fed some of her best songs onto her website

to create a buzz about her forthcoming new album.

Our boss was drip feeding us details of the new projects, so we weren't overloaded with

information all at once.

In this the English we speak, we're looking at drip feed. It describes the constant feed of information but in small amounts.

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