OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 62309

make a dent

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hacer mella
To make an impression; to have an effect on; to chip away at.
But I am not yet persuaded that Clintonomics will make much of a dent in the persistent problems of unemployment in the U.S. economy.
If an actor doesn't have a point of view, he doesn't make a dent. And I mean to make a dent.
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