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Значения термина pip-squeak на английском

Someone who is small and insignificant.

Синонимы
Examples for "squirt"
Examples for "squirt"
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Whatever you do, don't forget a generous squirt of the local mustard.
News.com.au
2
Her manager judged of her excellently; she certainly sang like a squirt.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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He stopped abruptly, and a squirt of laughter burst from the butcher.
The King's Achievement
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The divers squirt the toxin in the reef to stun the fish.
Reuters
5
Also forcible, impressibly forcible-withthe force of a squirt of tobacco juice.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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The message is clear: Nunavut is not the place for small fry.
Reuters
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Oh, of course it isn't practical to bother about the small fry.
Childhood's End
3
The small fry, startled out of caution, were tittering in hysterical excitement.
The Dark House
4
This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
5
But the small fry, such as you, will not get a shilling.
Framley Parsonage
Использование термина pip-squeak на английском
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Little pip-squeak, I shall wallop his scrawny hide to ribbons.
Soulless
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Listen, you little pip-squeak, I am coming down there.
Blue Moon
3
You scared of that pip-squeak?
The Maze Runner
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He measured and remeasured it in his laboratory weekly, but it persisted, a pip-squeak of a number that wouldn't go away.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
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The "pip-squeak" is a shell that starts with a silly "pip", goes on with a sillier "squeeeeee", and goes off with a man's-size bang.
A Yankee in the Trenches
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"Arrogant little pip-squeak, that one," my father said, watching Victor disappear down the road.
The Good Daughters
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"Okay," Jack says, wishing he could strangle this irritating pip-squeak, "let's move a step up the administrative ladder, shall we?
Black house
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