词汇 | dribs and drabs |
释义 | Idiom dribs and drabs Theme: AMOUNT - SMALL in small irregular quantities. (Especially with in and by.)The checks for the charity are coming in dribs and drabs.The members of the orchestra arrived by dribs and drabs.All her fortune was spent in dribs and drabs on silly things—like clothes and fine wines. dribs and drabs noun pubic lice. Rhyming slang for CRABS UK, 1992dribs and drabsInsignificant, skimpy, and/or piecemeal amounts. A: "Have you been able to get any work lately?" B: "Just some dribs and drabs to keep me ticking along, but nothing substantial." dribs and drabsBits and pieces, negligible amounts, as in There's not much left, just some dribs and drabs of samples. The noun drib is thought to be a shortening of driblet, for "drop" or "tiny quantity," dating from the early 1700s, whereas drab meaning "a small sum of money" dates from the early 1800s. dribs and drabsSmall quantities. This phrase, dating from the early nineteenth century, consists of nouns that rarely appear elsewhere. Drib, originating in the early 1700s, probably alludes to “dribble” or “trickle”; drab has meant a petty sum of money since the early 1800s. |
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