trickling down
Seeping gradually downward
Trickling down describes liquid moving slowly downward in a thin stream or drops: Sweat was trickling down his back.
Figuratively, it refers to gradual spreading from top to bottom—information trickling down through an organization, or the disputed economic theory that wealth trickling down from the rich eventually benefits everyone.
- seepingFlowing slowly through
- dribbleLeak in drops
- drippingRendered cooking fat
- water dropletsMinute liquid spheres
- slow leakGradual escape of air
supply-side economics · leaking · diffusing · income inequality · wealth gap · ripple effect · percolating · rain barrel · oozing · knowledge transfer · flowing · fiscal policy · capital flow · saturating · tax cuts · economic mobility · Reaganomics · resource allocation
trickling downgushing
Flowing out forcefully
pouring · flooding · cascading · torrenting · rushing
trickling downwelling up
Gradually rising from within
bubbling up · ascending · climbing · rising · rising up
trickling downpooling
Merging shared contributions
stagnating · standing still · stopped · blocked · sitting
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