| 单词 | a drop in the bucket or the ocean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa drop in the (a) bucket or the ocean b. a drop in the (a) bucket or the ocean: a quantity bearing an infinitesimally small proportion to the whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a small part or proportion > very a drop in the (a) bucket or the oceana1382 two feathers out of a goose1677 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xl. 15 Lo! Jentiles as a drope of a boket, and as moment of a balaunce ben holden. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xl. 15 The nations are as a drop of a bucket . View more context for this quotation 1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxiii. 206 The Invisible, Infinite and Eternal Maker of all things..to whom the Whole Globe is but as a drop of the Bucket. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 33 The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the..ocean of my business. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xiv. 221 That little would be but as a drop in the sea of the debts of the Town and County Bank. 1921 H. Crane Let. 17 Oct. (1965) 67 Sara Teasdale, Marguerite Wilkinson, Lady Speyer, etc., to mention a few drops in the bucket of feminine lushness. 1962 D. Mayo Island of Sin viii. 62 Five thousand dollars, he asked for—a mere drop in the bucket, no doubt, considering the offhand manner in which the request was made. 1968 Listener 23 May 658/3 It's very important to me that Jennie Lee does care a lot about the provinces. But what she has given is only a drop in the ocean. < as lemmas |
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