precious little

English

Prepositional phrase

precious little

1. (idiomatic) Almost nothing; hardly anything.

   Synonym: precious few

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:

     Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.

   • 2007, Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back, page 22:

     Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.

Translations

almost nothing; hardly anything

• Hungarian: édeskevés (hu)