tin-pot
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tin-pot
- /ˈtɪnpɒt/ UK
- /ˈtɪnˌpɑt/ US
Where it comes from
From tin + pot, referring to the cheapness and poor quality of pots made from tin or tin plate.
adjective tinpot · tin pot
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Of inferior quality; shoddy.
It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
Similar: ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy
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Insignificant or minor, especially in an amusing and petty manner.
Jim Hacker: Why are we having an official visit from this tin-pot little African country? / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tin-pot little African country. It's an LDC.
Similar: base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable
noun tin-pots
- A tin-pot dictator.
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adj of inferior quality; shoddy
| Español | de pacotilla |
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