tin-pot
铁锅,锡壶,罐子,铁罐
Definitions
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- : inferior; paltry; shoddy: The tin-pot farce lasted only three performances before closing.
- : of minor importance or significance: a tin-pot dictator, trying to look like a statesman.
Examples
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.
The line right before this is “With little tin horns and little toy drums.”
Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.
So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
Otherwise, a child's box of tin soldiers sent by post would have been just the thing for the Dardanelles landing!
He watched the man put some bread and milk in a tin pan, and set it down on the floor of the basket.