Definitions

drop in the bucket

NOUN

small amount

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bit trivial amount

STRONG

pittance small amount small change small potatoes small quantity

WEAK

Band-Aid cosmetic measure disappointment drop in the ocean lick and a promise miniscule amount not enough speck spit in the sea too little too late trifle

Example Sentences

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But everything being done adds up to a drop in the bucket for a city with some 1,000 supermarkets in total.

From Barron's

Yes, it’s a drop in the bucket compared with Harvard’s gigantic $57 billion endowment.

From MarketWatch

But that is a drop in the bucket. xAI needs $18 billion just to buy the 300,000 microchips required to run Colossus 2, its second giant data center in Tennessee, the Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal

And yet, he added, this deal is “a drop in the bucket compared to where we need to go.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Their assets are still a drop in the bucket of the $7.4 trillion sitting in traditional money-market funds, according to the Investment Company Institute.

From Barron's

drop in the bucket

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