Talk:little Hitler

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little Hitler

This is not idiomatic at all, it just uses a sense of little we are currently lacking. There are many many other collocations that use this sense of little to mean "alike". -- Liliana • 21:44, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Delete per nomination. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 21:49, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Delete. I don't think this is any special meaning of little. This is just belittlement and a metaphor that has been lexicalized. DCDuring TALK 23:35, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Quite common, and is in e.g. Chambers, but to me it's covered by little + Hitler (common noun); we even indicate they are synonyms by including little Hitler within the def line for Hitler (!). Equinox ◑ 16:35, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

But we'll have to change that if little Hitler gets deleted. —Angr 17:13, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes; I only mentioned it because its current presence as a synonym supports my statement that a little Hitler is nothing more than a little (i.e. petty, small-time) Hitler. Compare little jobsworth, which is also common. Equinox ◑ 17:18, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Just SoP.--Dmol (talk) 00:56, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Keep for now. If someone shows actual evidence that "little" is used in this way for a variety of terms, I might support deletion. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

There's another missing sense, as in "you little bastard", "you little shit", "you little cunt". Mglovesfun (talk) 19:33, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Delete. There are little Napoleons; little Stalins; little devils; little Bogarts; little Capones; little Castros; little Jesuses; little Houdinis; little Lenins; little Mandelas; little Mozarts; ......... --Hoziron (talk) 02:50, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, delete. DAVilla 04:51, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Striking as deleted. bd2412 T 04:04, 2 July 2013 (UTC)