thimbleful in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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

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It's roughly the equivalent of putting a thimbleful of dirty water into a bathtub.
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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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I pumped for 20 minutes, only to get a thimbleful of colostrum.
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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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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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They start an emergency lobsterectomy, cutting away the not-so-good meat, and soon have a mountain of discarded bad chunks and a thimbleful of good.
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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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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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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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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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