precious little

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Almost nothing; hardly anything.Synonym:precious fewPrecious littlethanks we got!1899February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company,[…],→OCLC, part I,page195:Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, -precious littleto eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.2007, Darryl Brock,If I Never Get Back, page22:Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encounteredprecious littlein the way of Twainesque romance or riches.

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