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Abstract thought: increasing sight by decreasing instances.

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on the wane and on the wax

[on the wane and on the wax] {adv. phr.} Decreasing and increasing. - Said of the moon. * /The moon is regularly on the wane and on the wax at […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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