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half-pint

  • n  disparaging terms for small people
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  • The "half-pint vote"dirt farmers, hillbillies and unemployed coal miners who sell out on Election Day for a half-pint of whiskyis an old political institution in the.
  • A half-pint, because that fit right in.
  • They are Dennis the Menace come to life, half-pint hellions who drive parents and teachers to distraction with their disruptive antics.
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  half-pint
  • Ronnie Earle in Dallas Morning News (registration)
    The effect of this decision is to create a separate class of felonies that are indeed 'puny, half-pint' felonies, somewhat different, perhaps less serious and less worthy of diligent enforcement, than the felonies defined in the penal code,...

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