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thimbleful

['θɪmblful]

сущ.

чуть-чуть, щепотка, небольшое количество (чего-л.)

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Then take a little powder, about a thimbleful, or perhaps two, and pour it into the barrel.
Потом возьмите пороху с наперсток, может быть, два наперстка, и всыпьте.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / IdiotДостоевский, Фёдор / Идиот
Идиот
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1971
Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
© 2004 by Fine Creative Media, Inc.
Now, for instance, instead of sipping a thimbleful of port and complaining of the headache, she tossed off a tumbler of Chianti and slept the sounder.
Раньше, например, она едва пригубит наперсток портвейна и потом жалуется на головную боль, а теперь опрокинет целый стаканчик кьянти и спит как убитая.
Woolf, Virginia / Flush: A BiographyВульф, Вирджиния / Флаш
Флаш
Вульф, Вирджиния
© Е. Суриц, перевод, 1986, 2001
© "Азбука-классика", 2006
Flush: A Biography
Woolf, Virginia
© 1933 by Harcourt, Inc.
© renewed 1961 by Leonard Woolf

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thimbleful
'θɪmblfulNounчуть-чуть; щепотка; небольшое количествоExamples

Cordials were dealt out in thimblefuls. — Крепкие напитки разливали по чуть-чуть.

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thimbleful

noun
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Common casethimblefulthimblefuls
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