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A small amount left after others have taken a share. For example, After each of the children took what they wanted of Mother's things, it was slim pickings for the rest of the family. This expression alludes to animals devouring a carcass. [Early 1600s]

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He was one of living symbols of “White Ribbon Revolution” of 2012, always in black, slim, shaved, almost a monk.
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It was slim, about “fifty to sixty pages,” according to Bradlee, and mostly concerned with her paintings.
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Stangneth probes his affairs in Argentina, including with Ingrid von Ihne, “tall, blond, and slim, with a cold beauty.”
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
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One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.
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Bedded in the soft earth underneath lay the slim buckskin sacks.
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Outen the side door of the porch next me come a slim, little figger in white.
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