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The least bit   /list bɪt/   Listen
The least bit

adverb
1.
In the slightest degree or in any respect.  Synonyms: at all, in the least.  "Was not in the least unfriendly"






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"The least bit" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied decidedly. "Anette has a very good head. You have just heard stories from envious women." He was careful to say nothing about her legs. "I haven't found her the least bit out of the way; and she ...
— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... said Friar Tuck, "seeing she is a Jewess—and yet, by mine Order, it is hard that so young and beautiful a creature should perish without one blow being struck in her behalf! Were she ten times a witch, provided she were but the least bit of a Christian, my quarter-staff should ring noon on the steel cap of yonder fierce Templar, ere he carried ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... really imagine!" she persisted. "You see, he takes his social position so seriously! And when you are conspicuous—when everybody's talking about what you do—when everything that's the least bit unusual is ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... tell you?" he cackled to the roundsman. "John D. is a Chinese necromancer. I'm getting used to his tricks, and you will catch the habit in another hour or two. By four o'clock you won't be the least bit surprised if you find yourself flying across the New Jersey flats in an aeroplane, or having a cup of hot coffee on board the pilot ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

... have you to do that's better?" asked her aunt in some astonishment. "Lydia, my dear, your collar is pinned the least bit crooked. ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield


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