spit in the ocean

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spit in the ocean

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countable, idiomatic, uncountable A very small or insignificant amount; something of little importance. Lawrence Venuti, a translator and author of The Translator's Invisibility, said that, beyond high-profile bestsellers, translations in the UK and US were still "a spit in the ocean" compared with countries such as Spain, France or Italy.
Similar: drop in the ocean, bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, inconsequential, flamfew, flyspeck, minuity
uncountable A variety of poker involving an extra dealt card shared by all players.

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@misc{spit_in_the_ocean_2026,
  title = {spit in the ocean},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spit%20in%20the%20ocean},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}