on the back of a postage stamp

In a very small space. Used to indicate an extremely limited or meager amount of knowledge about something. Why did they sit me next to a poetry professor at the wedding? Everything I know about poetry could fit on the back of a postage stamp! No one takes him seriously; he could write what he knows about socioeconomics on the back of a postage stamp.

on the back of a postage stamp

If you say that everything someone knows about a subject could be written on the back of a postage stamp, you mean they know very little about it. What she knew about children would have fitted on the back of a postage stamp.

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释义	on the back of a postage stamp on the back of a postage stamp In a very small space. Used to indicate an extremely limited or meager amount of knowledge about something. Why did they sit me next to a poetry professor at the wedding? Everything I know about poetry could fit on the back of a postage stamp! No one takes him seriously; he could write what he knows about socioeconomics on the back of a postage stamp. See also: back, of, on, postage, stamp Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. on the back of a postage stamp If you say that everything someone knows about a subject could be written on the back of a postage stamp, you mean they know very little about it. What she knew about children would have fitted on the back of a postage stamp. See also: back, of, on, postage, stamp Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: Is that what they're calling it now? Is that what they're calling it these days? How (something) can you be? How (something) can you get? how selfish, stupid, ungrateful, etc. can you get? I can't remember the last time (something happened) is that right Is that so? References in periodicals archive Jaitley's retort jibe came a day after the finance minister had said that Modi's understanding of economics "can be written on the back of a postage stamp." 'I expected Jaitley to react to "back of a postage stamp" remark on Modi,' says Chidambaram "What we know about Pluto today could fit on the back of a postage stamp," said Colleen Hartman, a NASA administrator. Rocketing into the future
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