词汇 | fit on the back of a postage stamp |
释义 | Idiom fit on the back of a postage stampfit/write (something) on the back of a postage stamp if you say you could write what you know about a subject on the back of a postage stamp, you mean you know very little about that subject.What I know about car maintenance could be written on the back of a postage stamp. fit on the back of a postage stampFit in a very small space, because there is very little content. This phrase is used to indicate that one knows very little about something. The idea is that one could only fill a very small space—like the back of a postage stamp—writing what one knows about the topic. I am definitely going to fail this test—what I know about Victorian poetry could fit on the back of a postage stamp! |
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