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slim pickings
Idioms and Phrases
A small amount left after others have taken a share. For example, After each of the children took what they wanted of Mother's things, it was slim pickings for the rest of the family . This expression alludes to animals devouring a carcass. [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
Before that though, there's been slim pickings for mainstream pop songs that celebrate authentic lesbian relationships.
Rowanne Bennett-Waters, who brings her three-year-old son to the nursery, said he didn't enjoy "more traditional settings" and there were "slim pickings" for places he could go next.
No, but it was the one that stood out from the slim pickings this week.
But while Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk have reluctantly provided snippets in interviews about contract talks it has been slim pickings from Trent Alexander-Arnold.
‘You get to 60 and it’s slim pickings,’ the actor says of the ‘beauty-based’ entertainment industry — but with the Apple TV+ spy drama, she keeps finding new ways to shine.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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