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Перевод: piddling

[прилагательное]
мелкий; пустячный; ничтожный

Тезаурус:

1. Because you're slaving away in that little office all day doing stupid, piddling little jobs for me!
2. Despite this storm in a teacup about one piddling registrar job.
3. The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy: hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away, then the leaf will fall or not fall, I will die or be immortal, the sun will rise or not.
4. However, it is at least ten million years too short to spend an evening piddling about with peppermint footbaths or rainforest elixir ear-lobe exfoliators.
5. They had seemed quite satisfied with his answers to their further questions, piddling little questions about the baby's weight and hair and eye color, about the progress of the birth.
6. Despite a piddling little incident in Aberdeen in 1989 when he was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for what the law delicately describes as "a public nuisance offence", Nicholas began to re-build his reputation at Aberdeen, a city whose heritage was built on fish and has the highest concentration of chip shops in Scotland.
7. Nobody laughed, and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels' sandals.
8. "If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint."
9. Nothing medieval about the station: it was vast, fifteen times the piddling outfit at home.
10. Only last week the National Rivers Authority sent the bailiffs in over yet another debt - in du Cann's terms, a piddling 425.
11. "I could have made it something piddling, like embezzling the mess funds, but I thought it might as well be, you know, melodramatic."
12. A discharge small in volume may be judged polluting if its watercourse is also small; if the stream is large, however, the effluent overlooked ('You take no action when your flow is piddling small') or, at least, considered insignificant and postponed indefinitely as a job to be tackled.
13. But the point that young Macaulay fails to realise is that if one is going to take potshots, there is no point in aiming a verbal blunderbuss at piddling little targets.