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half-pint

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half-pint

Any small, weak, or insignificant person. Alludes to a pint, a unit of liquid measurement. Don't go picking a fight with me, half-pint, or I'll knock you into next Tuesday! That new half-pint they hired as a CEO is totally incompetent. Listen, half-pint, I said, "Give me your lunch money!"
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For holiday gifts, I fill half-pint jars with dried herbs from the garden and attach attractive labels.
The beer is sold in half-pint bottles and is more alcoholic than whisky or vodka.
Yep, she paid the same price - pounds 2.50 - for a half-pint of orange diluted with water.
They all offer a variety of bottle sizes, ranging from about $7 for a half-pint to about $70 for a big, fat gallon (16 half-pints) of fabulous, rich, real maple syrup.
SUTTON Coldfield's half-pint diva Connie Talbot, who almost won the TV show Britain's Got Talent and has now cut a disc, has not got into this year's pop charts.
I bet Nicole Kidman is really relieved that her marriage has received the blessing of her half-pint ex, Tom Cruise.
The Coronation Beer was sold for price was 2s 6d for a half-pint bottle.
Duncan McDougall, Greenock LIKE reader Annette Welsh, I bought a half-pint Pyrex jug to use for mixing my baby's feed in 1962 and am still using it.
The court heard Mr Parish boasted he could drink a half-pint of spirits before Mr Watson finished his pint in a "party trick".
Simon Drew, prosecuting, said James threw a half-pint glass at Mr Matthews as he was drinking in the Halfway House pub, in Wolverhampton, causing him serious injuries.
Emma Bridgewater's half-pint version will set you back pounds 14.99 (020 7371 5489, www.
glass abestas directly into a half-pint - a hurricane glass is best.
PROPPING up the bar in the officers' mess, a young Princess Diana waits for her half-pint of shandy.
A hunt member said: "He was drinking red wine out of a half-pint tumbler which was being topped up by the waitresses.
HALF-PINT hero Christopher Baller celebrated his sixth birthday with a police bravery award for nailing an armed robber.
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