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词汇 write on the back of a postage stamp
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Idiom
write 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.
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fit on the back of a postage stamp

Fit 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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