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As much as a thimble will hold
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thimbleful
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thimbleful \Thim"ble*ful\, n.; pl. Thimblefuls . As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. --Dryden.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 As much as a thimble will hold. 2 (context by extension English) A small amount of liquid, especially alcoholic spirits.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A thimbleful of water, sir? he asked the ant. ▪ A lot of tax money had gone for a thimbleful of water. ▪ Early attacks of stage fright were cured by a thimbleful of Courvoisier. ▪ I don't know what the great lady is on but I'd ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. as much as a thimble will hold [syn: thimble ]
Usage examples of thimbleful.
The tube of the life-preserver was held over the baler, and out trickled a small quantity of pure water, two thimblefuls apiece.
I took it, and also the next issue, and finally Moira Longerman herself, followed by Binny, fought her way out of the throng, holding two glasses high to avoid having the expensive thimblefuls knocked flying.
Marta, her arthritis under temporary medical control, smiled broadly and poured a thimbleful of Barolo into a stemmed glass.
She walked to the door and stood only inches from it, looking at the threadlike, cracked lines in the paint on the cypress boards, the exposed, square nailheads that were darkened with rust, a thimbleful of cobweb stuck behind a hinge.
Then with regard to nourishment, he would be inclined already to shove in a leetle stimulant, a thimbleful perhaps four times a day with food--not without--mixed with an egg, with arrowroot, with custard.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Maraschino, is only, as it were, tweaking the nose of teetotalism.
It's a thimbleful compared to what I would have swallowed if you and Cami hadn't thought so fast.
He distilled the alcohol down to about a thimbleful and filled a tiny glass tube with these few remaining drops.
The cork came out with a satisfactorily loud pop and the robot set two champagne flutes on the bar top in front of Humphries, then poured a thimbleful of wine for him to taste.
A thimbleful of watery, mucusy fluid ran out, more like thin snot than blood.
Jordan poured a thimbleful into the chased silver tastevin which he wore on the chain about his neck.
Points of biolumines-cence were evident nearby, fireflies bouncing on the air, thimblefuls of abdominal light.
He had devised a strategy beforehand to bring it off -- looking at nothing at all for a long time, then gazing at the Yeunner, gathering strength from the creature, as it were, and then letting his eyes rest upon Morana as she sat there, tuxedo'd and painted as he was, with her short black hair parted in the middle and greased down flat, as was his, and with blue eyes like two thimblefuls of ocean.
I took it, and also the next issue, and finally Moira Longerman herself, followed by Binny, fought her way out of the throng, holding two glasses high to avoid having the expensive thimblefuls knocked flying.
It was the sort of place that encourages talking in whispers, so George and I muttered over the coffee, getting such warmth as we could from our thimblefuls of port.