| 词组 | half-pint |
| 释义 | half-pinthalf-pintAny small, weak, and/or insignificant person. Alludes to a pint, a unit of liquid measurement. Don't go picking a fight with me, half-pint, or I'll knock you into next Tuesday! That new half-pint they hired as a CEO is totally incompetent. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
References in periodicals archive For holiday gifts, I fill half-pint jars with dried herbs from the garden and attach attractive labels. The many uses for canning jars The beer is sold in half-pint bottles and is more alcoholic than whisky or vodka. A pint of our best ale? That's pounds 110 please.. Yep, she paid the same price - pounds 2.50 - for a half-pint of orange diluted with water. Drinks don't curry favour with our Iris They all offer a variety of bottle sizes, ranging from about $7 for a half-pint to about $70 for a big, fat gallon (16 half-pints) of fabulous, rich, real maple syrup. All about real maple syrup: when the rising temperatures of spring get sugary sap a-flowin,' you owe it to yourself to taste the real stuff SUTTON Coldfield's half-pint diva Connie Talbot, who almost won the TV show Britain's Got Talent and has now cut a disc, has not got into this year's pop charts. Don't buy this record I bet Nicole Kidman is really relieved that her marriage has received the blessing of her half-pint ex, Tom Cruise. RADAR: Tom's blessing in the Nic of time The Coronation Beer was sold for price was 2s 6d for a half-pint bottle. Echoes of the ECHO Duncan McDougall, Greenock LIKE reader Annette Welsh, I bought a half-pint Pyrex jug to use for mixing my baby's feed in 1962 and am still using it. Built to last; Yourview The court heard Mr Parish boasted he could drink a half-pint of spirits before Mr Watson finished his pint in a "party trick". MAN DIED AFTER '10 SHOTS IN ONE GLASS' Hotel bar staff deny charge of manslaughter Simon Drew, prosecuting, said James threw a half-pint glass at Mr Matthews as he was drinking in the Halfway House pub, in Wolverhampton, causing him serious injuries. Black Country News: Man jailed over beer glass attack; WOLVERHAMPTON Emma Bridgewater's half-pint version will set you back pounds 14.99 (020 7371 5489, www. LOOKALIKES; Heart-painted mugs glass abestas directly into a half-pint - a hurricane glass is best. Mixing it PROPPING up the bar in the officers' mess, a young Princess Diana waits for her half-pint of shandy. Amazing glimpse of Di on honeymoon A hunt member said: "He was drinking red wine out of a half-pint tumbler which was being topped up by the waitresses. HAZZA'S BACK ON THE RAZZA; 36 hours after drinks row, Prince is out BOOZING HALF-PINT hero Christopher Baller celebrated his sixth birthday with a police bravery award for nailing an armed robber. That's my brave boy |
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