Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
- noun A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea; a slight in-convenience or discomfort; a thing of no moment.
- noun As much as a flea can bite; a relatively very small or insignificant quantity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
- noun A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sting inflicted by a flea
- noun a very minor inconvenience
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Examples
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But the feathers were, comparatively, a mere flea-bite.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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But the feathers were, comparatively, a mere flea-bite.
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I expect he will survive my flea-bite criticisms but if these comment pages are not an opportunity to give some critical feedback, then I don't know what they are for.
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In other news, Kasia has for some time been suffering from a flea-bite allergy, which has left her back and neck covered with itchy scabs.
September 9th, 2008 2008
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I protest the great ills of life are nothing — the loss of your fortune is a mere flea-bite; the loss of your wife — how many men have supported it and married comfortably afterwards?
The Newcomes 2006
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“There are some men who cry out at a flea-bite as loud as if they were torn by a vulture,” I growl.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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The “Black Death” is a heated subject for some, and certainly seemed to behave differently from the flea-bite carried bubonic plague of today.
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The light charge of the pistol, however placed, would be little more than a flea-bite on a monster already ripped laterally and longitudinally through and through by two great .450 cordite shells.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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At noon they had made good progress; but when the tremendous size of that two hundred mile canyon was taken into consideration, with its myriad of side "washes," and minor canyons, the distance that they had covered was, as Bob aptly declared, but a "flea-bite" compared with the whole.
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave James Carson
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"I suppose you'll soon knock off a flea-bite like that?"
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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