wear and tear

It enables nature to recruit its strength; whereas worry and discontent debilitate it, involving constant wear-and-tear.

Quiriquina, than the ordinary wear-and-tear of the sea and weather during the course of a whole century.

Even the London scenery is faithfully reproduced in material of extra strength, to stand the wear-and-tear of constant removal.

The wear-and-tear of rust is even faster than the tear-and-wear of work.