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Andrey Kuptsov
What does "pipsqueak" mean?
and what does it mean literally?
squeak means "cheep" - voice of a bird
what means "pip" here?
28 févr. 2011 10:12
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pip-squeak :
(n) someone who is small and insignificant
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Examples :
1. North Carolina's unbending Senator goes his own way For years he was regarded as a solitary pip-squeak voice on the far right, a lonely ideologue from a Southern.
2. For all its industrial might, General Electric was treated like a pip-squeak when it first entered the macho business of building commercial-jet engines.
28 février 2011
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Andrey Kuptsov
Compétences linguistiques
Anglais, Russe
Langue étudiée
Anglais
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