slim pickings

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• slim pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking …   Financial and business terms

• slim pickings — noun A small amount, paucity; especially in reference to money. ... they were among the citizens of the Great Republic who got shut into Paris during the siege, and had reason to complain of the slim pickings even their dollars commanded during… …   Wiktionary

• slim pickings — noun plural : little to be had or gained had slim pickings for supper …   Useful english dictionary

• slim pickings — Synonyms and related words: Lenten fare, austerity, exiguity, exiguousness, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, meagerness, meanness, miserliness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, puniness, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• slim/lean/meagre pickings — ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking …   Financial and business terms

• slim — [slim] adj. slimmer, slimmest [orig., useless, bad, weak < Du, crafty, bad, akin to Ger schlimm, bad] 1. small in girth in proportion to height or length; slender 2. small in amount, degree, or extent; slight; scant; meager [slim pickings, a… …   English World dictionary

• pickings — n. (colloq.) choice lean, slim pickings * * * slim pickings (colloq.) [ choice ] lean …   Combinatory dictionary

• Slim Pickens — Infobox actor imagesize = caption = birthname = Louis Burton (Bert) Lindley, Jr. birthdate = birth date|1919|6|29|mf=y birthplace = Kingsburg, California, U.S. deathdate = death date and age|1983|12|8|1919|6|29 deathplace = Modesto, California ,U …   Wikipedia

• pickings — noun plural Date: 1642 something that is picked or picked up: as a. gleanable or eatable fragments ; scraps b. yield or return for effort expended < easy pickings > < slim pickings > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• lean pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking …   Financial and business terms

• lean/meagre pickings — slim/lean/meagre pickings ► a lack of good things to choose from: »Even money market funds offer slim pickings these days. Main Entry: ↑picking …   Financial and business terms