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DROP IN THE BUCKET, A

an extremely small amount compared to the whole, usually much less than what is needed or wanted
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1. We need to raise over one million dollars to fund the new Center for AIDS Research. The thousand dollars we have already collected is just a drop in the bucket.
2. What he paid me is only a drop in the bucket compared to what he owes me.


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