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What does "pipsqueak" mean?
and what does it mean literally?
squeak means "cheep" - voice of a bird
what means "pip" here?
Feb 28, 2011 10:12 AM
Answers · 1
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.
February 28, 2011
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Andrey Kuptsov
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