spill ink

present singular third person spills ink · participle present spilling ink · participle past spilled ink · past spilled ink · participle past spilt ink · past spilt ink

1. idiomaticTo write, especially professionally.

   While democratic forces remain active throughout the African continent, scholars continue to spill ink debating the promises and pitfalls of African democratic transitions.

   1999, Bamidele A. Ojo, Contemporary African politics, page 1

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   Of all the problems which lie on the borderline of philosophy and science, perhaps none has caused more spilled ink, more controversy, and more emotion than "the problem of the direction of time.

   1974, J Earman, “An Attempt to Add a Little Direction to "The Problem of the Direction of Time"”, in Philosophy of Science