thimbleful in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for thimbleful in the English»French Dictionary

thimbleful [Brit ˈθɪmb(ə)lfʊl, ˈθɪmb(ə)lf(ə)l, Am ˈθɪmbəlˌfʊl] N (of liquor)

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I had no fuel pressure in the last ten laps, and ended up with a thimbleful of gas at the finish.

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A thimbleful of sand, some metal and a handful of various plastics, that's what you own.

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Your husband doesn't need an expensive dressing gown and a thimbleful of lettuce.

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For a thimbleful under $38 you get a six-pack of bottles that you can customize yourself.

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The participants -- who weren't told which strength they were getting -- were instructed to smoke a thimbleful (25 milligrams) from a small pipe three times a day for five days.

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I pumped for 20 minutes, only to get a thimbleful of colostrum.

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A neutron star can be several times more dense than an atomic nucleus, and a thimbleful of neutron-star material would weigh more than 500 million tons.

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There's the hearty lunch, too, just because we know the next day he might not be consuming much more than a thimbleful of miso soup.

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Our average yearly consumption of sugar has escalated from something like a thimbleful in the 1700s to three tons per person today.

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While the top left includes a pinch of salt, a dash of pickle and a thimbleful of salad, or a smidgen of chutney.

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