They are trying to whittle down our salaries.
to cut down; to reduce; to curtail; to slash; to whittle down
It has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.
Useful in dealing with units skulking behind walls for protection, or to whittle away besieging troops outside your walls.
A junior HR officer will typically whittle these down to along list, spending no more than 15 seconds examining each CV.
Simpson (John, not Homer) and his colleagues whittle that list down to the few that seem to have gotten a solid foothold in popular usage.
Profit be whittle down by the ever - rising cost of energy
Profits are whittle down by the ever-rising cost of energy.
That is presumably why the KPK's powers are under threat from the parliament, which may yet whittle them away.
Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.
I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.
While users can whittle apps down to broad categories, such as games, they can't sort by rating or recently added.
whittle down expenses
Regulators are working through IOSCO, an international body of securities regulators, to attempt to whittle down these differences.
The recent election results have whittle away the government's power.
Furthermore, with the equity markets still in turmoil, Freescale may not be able in the near future to whittle down its debts by selling shares to the public.
Don't whittle the stick down too much or it won't be long enough.
Torre mentioned at the beginning of the four-game series that the Yankees would probably, in the next day or two, whittle down its 13 pitchers.
