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Idioms and Phrases

Also, precious little . Very few, very little, as in There are precious few leaves left on the trees , or We have precious little fuel left . In these idioms precious serves as an intensive, a colloquial usage dating from the first half of the 1800s.
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Example Sentences

From a lyrical standpoint, there are precious few that can catch Kendrick.

There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works.

He fashioned BOB, the demon spirit who lived in the Black Lodge, but such an explanation satisfied precious few of us.

A precious few mature into serious actors, sustaining careers into adulthood.

There are precious few movies or TV series that you can call good adaptations of books.

Business men and some professional are the only ones that forge steadily ahead; with precious few exceptions.

He would not like his guests to feel bored at losing one of their precious few-and-far-between holidays.

Yes; I rather flatter myself there are precious few of my Contemporaries who care about my Work!

And as for leasing—leasing land they virtually own—no, there's precious few are doing that, thank God!

Precious few new boarders come, and a good many of the old ones quit.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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