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Feb 17, 2009 · Feb 17, 2009. #3. "A little man" is also an idiom for a petty man. You might want to be careful about the context. Little boys are sometimes lovingly referred to as "my little man." Little and small can be used interchangeably to describe the size of a man given the right context but it's more clear to use "short" or "thin."
Mar 23, 2011 · That little green man is a leprechaun, Lartigas. L. lartigas New Member. chile. Spanish
Sep 6, 2016 · "Little did I know" is used when we falsely believed something, and the true situation was unknown to us - or is not revealed to us until later. Mr X was a funny man, and I always thought he must be an amusing companion. Little did I know that he was a secret drinker, who often beat his wife.
Sep 24, 2012 · english - USA. Aug 27, 2014. #5. I believe this is actually a reference to Edme Champion, a Parisian Jeweler and philanthropist active around the time the Count of Monte Cristo was set. According to a rough translation of the french wikipedia page about him: "The little blue coat he wore was often used as an appellation, and has since passed ...
Dec 19, 2019 · Dec 19, 2019. #1. Cliff says to Bruce Lee: Cliff: What I think is...you're a little man with a big mouth and a big chip, and I think you should be embarrassed to suggest you'd be anything more than a stain on the seat of Cassius Clay's trunks. What's the meaning of "big chip"?
Jun 19, 2022 · You can't say "you little man!" (well, not with this meaning of "little"). You need something that describes the person's character. It would seem, from the examples given in this thread, that this something could be another adjective ("He's an evil little man") or a noun ("The little genius!"), but you can have both: "You lying little toerag!"
May 23, 2010 · English - US. May 23, 2010. #2. It is the first. The man is old and he is short. We would have to say the other idea differently. Maybe we would say "slightly advanced in age." There is probably a better way. In any case, "a little old" is not the way we usually say that someone has aged a little bit.
Nov 28, 2009 · I agree that "little man" would usually be seen as condescending. I think it's a pretty close equivalent to "little lady". ewie said: [I think any man (no matter how gentlemanly) who addressed a woman (however ladylike) as little lady in the UK, would receive a black eye.]
Mar 4, 2011 · Mar 4, 2011. #9. "Little did they know" is an inverted construction, because the subject follows the verb. I was never taught a formal typology of these, but ESL texts have explanations of the types and when to use them. "Little did they know" is usually followed by "that" and then a declarative sentence in the normal order describing what they ...
Feb 9, 2015 · Little person is the most recent term, and the least likely to cause offense. Unfortunately, as Cagey says, it's also the most ambiguous -- if I hear the sentence "He is a little person" with no context, I'm not sure if the speaker means that the "he" is unusually short for a man (say, 5'1) or if he has a form of dwarfism.
