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a drop in the bucket |
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a drop in the bucket a very small or unimportant amount What we were paid for our work was a drop in the bucket compared to what the company earned. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``What little funds we can contribute helps even though it's
just a drop in the bucket, but that's not really the purpose of
this,'' Brown said. No matter what it costs, it
is just a drop in the bucket compared to what Russia has lost. Spellings fined Texas $444,000, a drop in the bucket, after
Education Commissioner Shirley Neeley granted testing exemptions to
nearly 300,000 students with learning disabilities, preventing 40
percent of districts from failing federal benchmarks. |
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