thimbleful 的定义
plural thim·ble·fuls.
- the amount that a thimble will hold.
- a small quantity, especially of liquid.
更多thimbleful例句
- Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool.
- Even more important, I got in my thimbleful of quality time with the man himself.
- The members of the crew had hardly swallowed their thimbleful of some home-made liqueur, when the rumble of a carriage was heard.
- To York fair he must, he would go, if condemned to a bean and a thimbleful of water for fasting dinner ever after.
- They dined on dry biscuit and another thimbleful of water apiece and took watch by amiable agreement.
- He poured the thimbleful and handed it over quickly, and when Perroquet had tossed it off he filled again and again.
- The lunatic poured out a thimbleful for himself and filled Gaudissart's glass.