... they were among the citizens of the Great Republic who got shut into Paris during the siege, and had reason to complain of "the slim pickings" even their dollars commanded during that tragic episode of our neighbours history.
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slim pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking … Financial and business terms
slim pickings — noun plural : little to be had or gained had slim pickings for supper … Useful english dictionary
slim pickings — Synonyms and related words: Lenten fare, austerity, exiguity, exiguousness, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, meagerness, meanness, miserliness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, puniness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness,… … Moby Thesaurus
slim/lean/meagre pickings — ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking … Financial and business terms
slim — [slim] adj. slimmer, slimmest [orig., useless, bad, weak < Du, crafty, bad, akin to Ger schlimm, bad] 1. small in girth in proportion to height or length; slender 2. small in amount, degree, or extent; slight; scant; meager [slim pickings, a… … English World dictionary
pickings — n. (colloq.) choice lean, slim pickings * * * slim pickings (colloq.) [ choice ] lean … Combinatory dictionary
Slim Pickens — Infobox actor imagesize = caption = birthname = Louis Burton (Bert) Lindley, Jr. birthdate = birth date|1919|6|29|mf=y birthplace = Kingsburg, California, U.S. deathdate = death date and age|1983|12|8|1919|6|29 deathplace = Modesto, California ,U … Wikipedia
pickings — noun plural Date: 1642 something that is picked or picked up: as a. gleanable or eatable fragments ; scraps b. yield or return for effort expended < easy pickings > < slim pickings > … New Collegiate Dictionary
lean pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking … Financial and business terms
lean/meagre pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking … Financial and business terms
