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LITTLE PIECE

Specialty Definition: LITTLE PIECE

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Tips from 1870

Usage: Little piece. "I will go with you a little piece." A short distance or a part of the way would be more appropriate. Source: Slips of Speech.

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Crosswords: LITTLE PIECE

Etymologies containing "LITTLE PIECE": Etiquette. (references)

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Modern Usage: LITTLE PIECE

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Screenplays

Or maybe you shouldn't go bringing me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then - (The Grapes of Wrath; writing credit: John Steinbeck; Nunnally Johnson)

If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one? And suppose there are other worlds then ours is just a little piece of something much greater. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

And so does this rock! And I have some questions for this little piece of grass. (SpongeBob SquarePants; writing credit: Leonardo Fasoli; Patrizia Fassio)

This little piece of gum is a three course dinner. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Lyrics

It cost me a little piece of my heart (Love Somebody; performing artist: Rick Springfield)

Movie/TV Titles

A Little Piece of String (1901)

Daddie's Little Piece of Dresden China (1988)

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Commercial Usage: LITTLE PIECE

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Books

  • Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Historic Usage: LITTLE PIECE

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John Locke

1690

This is certain, that in the beginning, before the desire of having more than man needed had altered the intrinsic value of things, which depends only on their usefulness to the life of man; or had agreed, that a little piece of yellow metal, which would keep without wasting or decay, should be worth a great piece of flesh, or a whole heap of corn; though men had a right to appropriate, by their labour, each one of himself, as much of the things of nature, as he could use: yet this could not be much, nor to the prejudice of others, where the same plenty was still left to those who would use the same industry. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Use in Literature: LITTLE PIECE

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Well, maybe we could get a little piece of her.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LITTLE PIECE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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a little piece of heaven

4
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Modern Translation: LITTLE PIECE

Language Translations for "LITTLE PIECE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

finom kis jószág (nice little bit of goods, nice little piece of goods), finom kis csemete (nice little bit of goods, nice little piece of goods). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ittlelay iecepay

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Anagrams: LITTLE PIECE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-i-l-l-p-t-t"

-3 letters: elliptic.

-4 letters: pelitic, tillite.

-5 letters: elicit, illite, little, pelite, pellet, petite, pettle.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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