tiniest thing

tiniest thing

The smallest, most trivial, or most inconsequential thing or aspect. She's so sensitive—the tiniest things seem to get her in a huff. My boss is such a perfectionist that he will halt production to scrutinize the tiniest thing he thinks could be improved.
See also: thing, tiny
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • least little thing
  • littlest thing
  • lightweight
  • not to be sneezed at
  • not to be sneezed/sniffed at
  • not to be sniffed at
  • de minimis non curat lex
  • nag
  • nag at
  • nag at (one)
References in periodicals archive
But even the tiniest thing, like the food being served on the wrong colour plate or her brother starting his food before her, was enough to set her off.
The tiniest thing you do wrong becomes a massive thing used against you.
A lot of stories turn on the tiniest thing - the handkerchief in Othello, for example.
He'd get inexplicably mad over the tiniest thing...
"I was like, 'Can we please put in just even the tiniest thing about Faith?'" Balfe told (https://tvline.com/2017/10/24/outlander-claire-learns-about-william-season-3-episode-6-caitriona-balfe-interview/) TVLine .
"I had anxiety over the tiniest thing, and then you become even more scared because you're anxious."
as if At that stage of my recovery, even the tiniest thing would trigger the injury and it made a big difference.
Once again the tiniest thing that is not tiny at all: This time a girl, maybe age five, maybe walking To kindergarten with her dad, whereas she has a Backpack and is skipping a little as she holds his Hand, and he is fatherly of mien and wearing his Work uniform and trying to sip his coffee just as She executes a total whirling which requires him To lift his hand at the exact right instant like they Are on the dance floor and then there is the thing That gives me the shivering willies: she takes the Ring finger of his right hand./usf that one finger,
You think you've got it all arranged, but then the tiniest thing, maybe a small glitch in the system like somebody falling sick, makes everything come crashing down.
The tiniest thing can decide a match," added Cesar, who faces the prospect of playing second tier English football next season after being relegated with Queens Park Rangers.
"This is the tiniest thing I have ever done and by far the most complicated."
"The tiniest thing can cause an infection, then cause something else.
even the tiniest thing gone wrong sends your world into a
"It is the tiniest thing but perfectly egg-shaped," the Sun quoted mum of three, Claire Protheroe, 35, as saying.
Mine would be to take time to enjoy every moment of those first few weeks." Michelle Graham, 37, from Grangetown, who is mum to Will, aged three "Lower your expectations of what you can achieve each day so even the tiniest thing you do is a massive accomplishment." Mum-of-two Wendy Sadler, from Llandaff.