蚕食鲸吞

Explanation: Silkworms eat mulberry leaves as the occupation as a step by step, like swallowing food that once the annexation. Analogy with other countries in various ways to annex occupied territory. 　　Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; metaphor a little bit to be swallowed 　　Source: Qing Ji Yun "Notes of Summer recorded a six-Luan Yang": "Ruxian left two orphaned nephews, Yu swallow like a whale, it demonstrated a few Lek." 　　Examples: In the Qianlong era, the English destroyed the East India, Bangladesh, according to stab, the ~ means of getting Stanford, mergers that the eastern, central, and southern India, the land. (Qing Peng Ou Yang, "ghosts of black membership," the second time) Thesaurus:  Swallow like a whale According to Hu, swallow like a whale encroach