slim pickings 的定义
- A small amount left after others have taken a share. For example, After each of the children took what they wanted of Mother's things, it was slim pickings for the rest of the family. This expression alludes to animals devouring a carcass. [Early 1600s]
slim pickings 近义词
等同于 dearth
slim pickings 的近义词 22 个
- absence
- deficiency
- inadequacy
- lack
- paucity
- shortage
- default
- defect
- famine
- infrequency
- meagerness
- miss
- need
- poverty
- privation
- rareness
- scantiness
- scantness
- sparsity
- uncommonness
- want
- exiguousness
slim pickings 的反义词 12 个
等同于 few
slim pickings 的近义词 9 个
slim pickings 的反义词 2 个
更多slim pickings例句
- He was one of living symbols of “White Ribbon Revolution” of 2012, always in black, slim, shaved, almost a monk.
- Slim turned Bush down, and Lehman filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, just weeks before the presidential election.
- It was slim, about “fifty to sixty pages,” according to Bradlee, and mostly concerned with her paintings.
- For months, first term Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan has managed to cling to slim lead that has defied national factors.
- Stangneth probes his affairs in Argentina, including with Ingrid von Ihne, “tall, blond, and slim, with a cold beauty.”
- I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
- His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
- One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.
- Bedded in the soft earth underneath lay the slim buckskin sacks.
- Outen the side door of the porch next me come a slim, little figger in white.