thin gruel
noun
A watery gruel, typically having poor nutritional content; (figurative ) something insubstantial, unsatisfying, or inadequate.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Samuel Garth (d. 1719), physician and poet.
- play (or sing or practise) scales
- play (or use) the —— card
- play out
- play-party
- playpen
- play-play
- play politics
- play possum
- play-pretty
- playroom
- playscape
- playscheme
- playschool
- play-season
- play second fiddle
- play-seer
- playset
- playshop
- play silly buggers
- playsome
- play someone along
- play someone false
- play someone off
- play someone out
- play someone's game