half-pint

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms.

Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

half-pint

Any small, weak, and/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.

References in periodicals archive ?

The beer is sold in half-pint bottles and is more alcoholic than whisky or vodka.

A pint of our best ale? That's pounds 110 please..

A hunt member said: "He was drinking red wine out of a half-pint tumbler which was being topped up by the waitresses.

HAZZA'S BACK ON THE RAZZA; 36 hours after drinks row, Prince is out BOOZING

The Coronation Beer was sold for price was 2s 6d for a half-pint bottle.

Echoes of the ECHO

glass abestas directly into a half-pint - a hurricane glass is best.

Mixing it

Emma Bridgewater's half-pint version will set you back pounds 14.

LOOKALIKES; Heart-painted mugs

HALF-PINT hero Christopher Baller celebrated his sixth birthday with a police bravery award for nailing an armed robber.

That's my brave boy

PROPPING up the bar in the officers' mess, a young Princess Diana waits for her half-pint of shandy.

Amazing glimpse of Di on honeymoon

Meanwhile, people think drinking spirits isn't fattening but a single measure of gin, rum or brandy contains as many calories as a half-pint of beer.

Fancy a pint?; It might be Madonna's favourite tipple but can beer really be good for your health? M Health investigates

The half-pint star has decided that the 21st-century male needs a kick up the backside and he clearly thinks he's the guy for the job.

3am: Elijah's hate male campaign

Nowadays half our customers are women and they are not content with a half-pint.

CALLING TIME AFTER 64yrs ON THE PULL

However, if their tantrums make your strawberries stick in your throat you can always wash them down with a half-pint of Pimms in a pub in Partick.