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Tom Thumb

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Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb, General18381883MUSMISC: midget General, stage name of Charles Stratton. 1838–83, US midget, exhibited in P. T. Barnum's circus
a dwarf; midget

Tom Thumb

after Tom Thumb, the tiny hero of several English folk tales

I used to feel so hopeless that I was like Tom Thumb who has to hide under a chair so as not to be trodden on.

So the woodman at last agreed to sell Tom Thumb to the strangers for a large piece of gold.

Within a month after their arrival they purchased a small boat about eight feet in length, which they christened the Tom Thumb.

Some of the mock similes in "Tom Thumb" are among the most familiar things in literature.

Not even the transformed "Tom Thumb" could be called an effective reductio ad absurdum of the Italian opera of those days.

The burlesque contained within the pages of "Tom Thumb" covers a considerable field.

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