Significados de merest pittance en inglés

What this man offered him was the merest pittance.

It is true that he succeeded in placing an occasional article, for which he would be paid the merest pittance.

Some people take advantage of their need, and, because they are poor, make them work for the merest pittance in the world.

She would have given everything she possessed to them, keeping the merest pittance for herself, if fate and domestic tyranny had allowed.

The wage was, as it is to-day, the merest pittance; but any wage whatever was an advance upon the conditions of earlier servitude.

He professed himself willing to do any work required of him, for the merest pittance and some kind of roof over his head.

"He has the merest pittance of a salary," said the Deacon, "and I knew the twenty dollars would be acceptable to him.