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drop in the bucket
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drop in the bucket
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, curio, dole, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, half rations, halfpenny, hardly anything, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mere nothing, mere subsistence, minikin, mite, mockery, molehill, next to nothing, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pittance, rap, red cent, row of pins, rush, scrimption, shit, short allowance, short commons, snap, sneeshing, sou, starvation wages, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whim-whamFor further exploring for "drop in the bucket" in Webster Dictionary Online