precious little

English

Prepositional phrase

precious little

  1. (idiomatic) Almost nothing; hardly anything.
    Synonym: precious few
    Precious little thanks we got!
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:
      Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.
    • 2007, Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back, page 22:
      Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.

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