Lilliput
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Something “lilliputian” (lil-i-pyooh-shuhn) is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of something.
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From the ashes of Morey’s proposed book came “Small Ball,” about a small team with big basketball dreams set on the fictional Lilliput island out of “Gulliver’s Travels.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2023
The figures are as small as Jorge Flores’s eyeballs as he peers into the window of the barbershop, like Gulliver in the land of Lilliput.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021
Like Lilliput, Blackpool Laundry makes its living from providing linen to hotels, NHS hospitals and ferry services.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2021
Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020
The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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