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Phrases

P1. in small.

†a. In small quantities, in fragments; in detail. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase]

in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275

(all) to shiversc1275

to piecesc1300

asundera1325

to set in sunderc1325

in sunderc1390

in, into shredsc1400

in small1419

in piecemeal?a1425

in piecemealsa1470

by piecemeals1576

in shivers1589

in or into splinters1612

1419–20 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 202 (MED) Also hit is Ordeyned..þat no maner Off Man..schall sende..non horslodys Off [no] sotyll ware..To Retayle hit Inne small.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1309 Quen it was smeten in small..Ilka gobet his gate glidis fra othire.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 978 Comprised is in smal this part secounde.

b. (Cf. in little at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 2f.)

(a) In reference to painting, etc.: in miniature.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adverb] > in miniature

in little1604

in small1611

in miniature1700

1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. C1^v You have giuen me her picture in small.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 190 Hercules his Labours in Massy Silver, & many incomparable Pictures in small.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 376 His Soul; that noble Copy and Resemblance of its Maker, in small indeed, but nevertheless [etc.].

1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 76 Vandyck actually made the design, but..it was executed only in small by Ph. Frutiers.

1899 H. Adams Let. 19 Feb. (1988) IV. 690 This is a complete picture in small of the situation.

1963 D. Foskett Brit. Portrait Miniatures 35 A detailed description of how to prepare a picture in small follows.

2007 S. N. Mayberry Can't I love what I Criticize? 57 Wiley Wright cleverly avoids becoming a sketch in small of..Nel's husband.

(b) On a small scale; in little. Also (rare) in the small.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale

in little1604

in parvo1676

in miniature1700

in small1765

in pettoa1846

small-scale1852

in diminutive-

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 lxii. 273 Let him beware of trying experiments from books, except in small.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §219 (note) I have made trial of this method, both in small and in large.

1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxi, in Men & Women II. 40 Where the strong and the weak..Repeat in large what they practised in small.

1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. v. 299 We are infants too, men and women in the small.

2008 G. McCracken Transformations 211 The..transformation failed in small and in large.

P2. Scottish. in (also by) smalls: in small amounts, portions, or sums. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (1971) records this sense as still in use in Scotland in 1970.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in small amounts

in (also by) smalls1529

1529 Edinb. Burgh Statutes 8 Oct. At na personis..regrait nor by meill to sell the samyn agane in smallis.

1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 649 His haill vicarage is bot tuelf pundis or thairby, pait to him in smalis, in iiis and iiiis in sum placis.

1632 in E. Bain Merchant & Craft Guilds (1887) 221 To sell any flour, in greaties or smallies to unfriemen.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 287 Fifty merks (whilk he confessed..he had at sundrie tymes stollen out of the boxe in smalls).

a1653 H. Binning Sinners Sanctuary (1670) xiv. 111 Since he cannot get one sum in value, equal to it, he must be eternally paying it, in smalls.

1722 A. Pennecuik Hist. Blue Blanket 104 Every Tun of Wine to be retailed and vended in Smalls.

1734 T. Melvill True Caledonian 10 When they do sell a Piece to a Shop-keeper, they must take their Money by Smalls, as he can give it them.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 490 God's blessings are aye God's blessings, though they come in sma's and driblets.

1865 Glasgow Herald 31 July 4/5 Some speculating genius who saw a chance of turning a dishonest penny by retailing it in smalls.

a1895 R. M. Calder Berwickshire Bard (1897) 203 When no' content to save by sma's.

1930 H. W. Duncan in Sc. National. Dict. (1971) VIII. at Sma adj. [Aberdeenshire] Athing 'at's gweed's made up in sma's.

†P3. by small and small: by degrees; gradually, slowly. Now archaic and rare.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > gradually or in stages

footmealeOE

(a, by) lite and litec1290

a little and a littlea1375

little and littlea1387

(by) some and some1398

by little and by littlea1425

little by little?a1425

littly?a1425

inchmeal1530

by small and small1558

by (a) little1577

gradatim1583

by lithe and lithe1592

by inchesa1616

inch by incha1616

to go slow1664

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. sig. C.ij^v He..by smal and smal doth make The Queene forget her husband dead.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. 128 By small and small to landward than I swamme.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 194 I play the torturer by small and small To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken.

1994 Iowa Rev. 24 82 All things splendid are disfigured by small and small.

†P4. to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out and variants: to play for low stakes rather than not be involved in a game; (chiefly figurative) to engage in any activity, however trivial, rather than be idle. Obsolete.Also in proverbial use, with reference to the constant activity ascribed to the Devil, as the Devil will play at small game rather than sit out and variants.

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be fully occupied > keep fully occupied

to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out1565

to hold tug1577

to make play1813

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 106 I perceiue you wil play small play, rather than sit out.

1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xl. f. ccxli I see this man wolde plaie smal game raither then he will set out.

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 7 [He] is willing rather to play small play, then to giue out.

?1643 J. Vicars God on Mount 179 The Divell, who..is willing to play at small games, rather than sit out and bee idle.

1671 T. Shadwell Humorists v. 61 I am resolved to play at a small game, rather than stand out.

1750 Conversat. between Blacksmith & Merchant 5 They do not care to be idle, and will play at small Game, rather than stand out.

1770 J. Burgess Beelzebub driving & drowning his Hogs 18 Let thus much suffice on the first doctrinal observation rais'd from my text, viz. That the devil will play at small game, rather than none at all.

1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate i. 23 Some stuck to cards, and though no longer deep gamblers, rather played small game than sat out.

P5. in the smallest: in the least. rare.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in the least or the slightest degree

the leastc1400

any whit1526

one whit1526

(not) a wink1596

in the least1608

in the smallesta1616

in the leastwise1676

tint1886

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 169 I may make my case as Claudio's, to crosse this in the smallest .

1784 Parl. Reg. Ireland III. i. 127 All were under the same English influence, and consequently subversive of our interests, when it militated in the smallest against that of our monopolizing sister.

1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 276 The best wives will complain of their husbands to a stranger, without in the smallest liking them the less on that account.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. iii. 35 Not molesting Prince Karl in the smallest.

2004 D. Birchall Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma 157 You cannot think Henry would be influenced in the smallest by witnessing such a sin.

P6. a small fortune: see fortune n. 6.

P7.

small and early adj. and n. now historical (a) adj. designating a small evening party not intended to continue to a late hour; (b) n. a party of this kind.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > small

small and early1823

partykin1855

1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 1 As you return upon a winter's morning from one of the ‘small and early’ parties of that raking metropolis.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 99 For the clearing off of these worthies, Mrs. Podsnap added a small and early evening to the dinner.

1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 6 Oct. 360/1 Men, whose names were never whispered in the ‘at homes’ and ‘small and earlies’ of the season.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. ix. 86 Well, there are not many dinners among them to be sure... Small and earlies. How I hate a ‘small and early’!

1888 H. James Partial Portraits 360 To the afternoon tea, to the fashionable ‘squash’, to the late and suffocating ‘small and early’.

1900 ‘M. Corelli’ Master-Christian xvii. 258 A small and early dinner-party given by the Comtesse that evening.

1944 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 3 263 They were guests of Sir Francis Jeune..and Lady Jeune at one of their famous ‘small and earlies’.

P8. small is beautiful: expressing a belief that small-scale institutions, systems, etc., are more desirable than large-scale ones; also attributive.Esp. associated with the thought of E. F. Schumacher (see quot. 1973).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale > belief that small scale is best

small is beautiful1971

1971 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 5 31 The aesthetic values..are determined by real properties of the objects (i.e. size—small is beautiful and the gigantesque sublime.)

1973 E. F. Schumacher (title) Small is beautiful.

1975 Country Life 25 Dec. 1784/1 Adapting Schumacher's phrase, we decide that not only small but piecemeal is beautiful.

1976 Seed 5 v. 6/3 Included are articles on self-sufficiency, ‘small-is-beautiful’ politics and agriculture and nutrition.

1977 D. James Spy at Evening xxiv. 193 Small Is Beautiful—but big pays more.

2003 Holiday Which? Spring 80/2 It's good news once again for the no-frills airlines in our survey, but small is beautiful when it comes to our table topper.

单词	in small
释义	> as lemmas in small Phrases P1. in small. †a. In small quantities, in fragments; in detail. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > into (small) pieces [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 (all) to shiversc1275 to piecesc1300 asundera1325 to set in sunderc1325 in sunderc1390 in, into shredsc1400 in small1419 in piecemeal?a1425 in piecemealsa1470 by piecemeals1576 in shivers1589 in or into splinters1612 1419–20 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 202 (MED) Also hit is Ordeyned..þat no maner Off Man..schall sende..non horslodys Off [no] sotyll ware..To Retayle hit Inne small. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1309 Quen it was smeten in small..Ilka gobet his gate glidis fra othire. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 978 Comprised is in smal this part secounde. b. (Cf. in little at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 2f.) (a) In reference to painting, etc.: in miniature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [adverb] > in miniature in little1604 in small1611 in miniature1700 1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. C1^v You have giuen me her picture in small. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 190 Hercules his Labours in Massy Silver, & many incomparable Pictures in small. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 376 His Soul; that noble Copy and Resemblance of its Maker, in small indeed, but nevertheless [etc.]. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 76 Vandyck actually made the design, but..it was executed only in small by Ph. Frutiers. 1899 H. Adams Let. 19 Feb. (1988) IV. 690 This is a complete picture in small of the situation. 1963 D. Foskett Brit. Portrait Miniatures 35 A detailed description of how to prepare a picture in small follows. 2007 S. N. Mayberry Can't I love what I Criticize? 57 Wiley Wright cleverly avoids becoming a sketch in small of..Nel's husband. (b) On a small scale; in little. Also (rare) in the small. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale in little1604 in parvo1676 in miniature1700 in small1765 in pettoa1846 small-scale1852 in diminutive- 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 lxii. 273 Let him beware of trying experiments from books, except in small. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §219 (note) I have made trial of this method, both in small and in large. 1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxi, in Men & Women II. 40 Where the strong and the weak..Repeat in large what they practised in small. 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. v. 299 We are infants too, men and women in the small. 2008 G. McCracken Transformations 211 The..transformation failed in small and in large. P2. Scottish. in (also by) smalls: in small amounts, portions, or sums. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (1971) records this sense as still in use in Scotland in 1970. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in small amounts in (also by) smalls1529 1529 Edinb. Burgh Statutes 8 Oct. At na personis..regrait nor by meill to sell the samyn agane in smallis. 1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 649 His haill vicarage is bot tuelf pundis or thairby, pait to him in smalis, in iiis and iiiis in sum placis. 1632 in E. Bain Merchant & Craft Guilds (1887) 221 To sell any flour, in greaties or smallies to unfriemen. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 287 Fifty merks (whilk he confessed..he had at sundrie tymes stollen out of the boxe in smalls). a1653 H. Binning Sinners Sanctuary (1670) xiv. 111 Since he cannot get one sum in value, equal to it, he must be eternally paying it, in smalls. 1722 A. Pennecuik Hist. Blue Blanket 104 Every Tun of Wine to be retailed and vended in Smalls. 1734 T. Melvill True Caledonian 10 When they do sell a Piece to a Shop-keeper, they must take their Money by Smalls, as he can give it them. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 490 God's blessings are aye God's blessings, though they come in sma's and driblets. 1865 Glasgow Herald 31 July 4/5 Some speculating genius who saw a chance of turning a dishonest penny by retailing it in smalls. a1895 R. M. Calder Berwickshire Bard (1897) 203 When no' content to save by sma's. 1930 H. W. Duncan in Sc. National. Dict. (1971) VIII. at Sma adj. [Aberdeenshire] Athing 'at's gweed's made up in sma's. †P3. by small and small: by degrees; gradually, slowly. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > gradually or in stages footmealeOE (a, by) lite and litec1290 a little and a littlea1375 little and littlea1387 (by) some and some1398 by little and by littlea1425 little by little?a1425 littly?a1425 inchmeal1530 by small and small1558 by (a) little1577 gradatim1583 by lithe and lithe1592 by inchesa1616 inch by incha1616 to go slow1664 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos i. sig. C.ij^v He..by smal and smal doth make The Queene forget her husband dead. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. 128 By small and small to landward than I swamme. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 194 I play the torturer by small and small To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken. View more context for this quotation 1994 Iowa Rev. 24 82 All things splendid are disfigured by small and small. †P4. to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out and variants: to play for low stakes rather than not be involved in a game; (chiefly figurative) to engage in any activity, however trivial, rather than be idle. Obsolete.Also in proverbial use, with reference to the constant activity ascribed to the Devil, as the Devil will play at small game rather than sit out and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be fully occupied > keep fully occupied to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out1565 to hold tug1577 to make play1813 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 106 I perceiue you wil play small play, rather than sit out. 1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xl. f. ccxli I see this man wolde plaie smal game raither then he will set out. 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 7 [He] is willing rather to play small play, then to giue out. ?1643 J. Vicars God on Mount 179 The Divell, who..is willing to play at small games, rather than sit out and bee idle. 1671 T. Shadwell Humorists v. 61 I am resolved to play at a small game, rather than stand out. 1750 Conversat. between Blacksmith & Merchant 5 They do not care to be idle, and will play at small Game, rather than stand out. 1770 J. Burgess Beelzebub driving & drowning his Hogs 18 Let thus much suffice on the first doctrinal observation rais'd from my text, viz. That the devil will play at small game, rather than none at all. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate i. 23 Some stuck to cards, and though no longer deep gamblers, rather played small game than sat out. P5. in the smallest: in the least. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > in the least or the slightest degree the leastc1400 any whit1526 one whit1526 (not) a wink1596 in the least1608 in the smallesta1616 in the leastwise1676 tint1886 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 169 I may make my case as Claudio's, to crosse this in the smallest . View more context for this quotation 1784 Parl. Reg. Ireland III. i. 127 All were under the same English influence, and consequently subversive of our interests, when it militated in the smallest against that of our monopolizing sister. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 276 The best wives will complain of their husbands to a stranger, without in the smallest liking them the less on that account. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. iii. 35 Not molesting Prince Karl in the smallest. 2004 D. Birchall Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma 157 You cannot think Henry would be influenced in the smallest by witnessing such a sin. P6. a small fortune: see fortune n. 6. P7. small and early adj. and n. now historical (a) adj. designating a small evening party not intended to continue to a late hour; (b) n. a party of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > small small and early1823 partykin1855 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 1 As you return upon a winter's morning from one of the ‘small and early’ parties of that raking metropolis. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 99 For the clearing off of these worthies, Mrs. Podsnap added a small and early evening to the dinner. 1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 6 Oct. 360/1 Men, whose names were never whispered in the ‘at homes’ and ‘small and earlies’ of the season. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. ix. 86 Well, there are not many dinners among them to be sure... Small and earlies. How I hate a ‘small and early’! 1888 H. James Partial Portraits 360 To the afternoon tea, to the fashionable ‘squash’, to the late and suffocating ‘small and early’. 1900 ‘M. Corelli’ Master-Christian xvii. 258 A small and early dinner-party given by the Comtesse that evening. 1944 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 3 263 They were guests of Sir Francis Jeune..and Lady Jeune at one of their famous ‘small and earlies’. P8. small is beautiful: expressing a belief that small-scale institutions, systems, etc., are more desirable than large-scale ones; also attributive.Esp. associated with the thought of E. F. Schumacher (see quot. 1973). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > on a small scale > belief that small scale is best small is beautiful1971 1971 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 5 31 The aesthetic values..are determined by real properties of the objects (i.e. size—small is beautiful and the gigantesque sublime.) 1973 E. F. Schumacher (title) Small is beautiful. 1975 Country Life 25 Dec. 1784/1 Adapting Schumacher's phrase, we decide that not only small but piecemeal is beautiful. 1976 Seed 5 v. 6/3 Included are articles on self-sufficiency, ‘small-is-beautiful’ politics and agriculture and nutrition. 1977 D. James Spy at Evening xxiv. 193 Small Is Beautiful—but big pays more. 2003 Holiday Which? Spring 80/2 It's good news once again for the no-frills airlines in our survey, but small is beautiful when it comes to our table topper. extracted from smalladj.n.² < as lemmas
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