precious little en · DET
Meanings
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(idiomatic) Almost nothing; hardly anything.
Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.
2007, Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back, page 22:Precious little thanks we got!
Synonyms
Translations (2)
hu édeskevés (almost nothing; hardly anything) · es cuasi nada (almost nothing; hardly anything)