meagre
poor, weak
TRANSLATION
arm, ärmlich, dürftig, dürr, karg, kärglich
STATISTICS
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TRUE STORY:
Star boxer Rocky Graziano was making the transition from boxing to the world of show business. So someone asked him if he planned to polish up his English with some training at a place like (Lee Strasberg's) famous American Actors Studio. 'Why should I go to a place like that?' said the Graziano. 'All they do is learn guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'"
Graziano, who wore his poor background and MEAGER education like a badge of honor (das Ehrenabzeichen), often boasted that he could read and write worse than other people.
Graziano, Rocky. American boxer - world middleweight champion (1947-48)
(Note the grammatical mistake in the above quote =
"...learn guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'" should read:
"...teach guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'"
Star boxer Rocky Graziano was making the transition from boxing to the world of show business. So someone asked him if he planned to polish up his English with some training at a place like (Lee Strasberg's) famous American Actors Studio. 'Why should I go to a place like that?' said the Graziano. 'All they do is learn guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'"
Graziano, who wore his poor background and MEAGER education like a badge of honor (das Ehrenabzeichen), often boasted that he could read and write worse than other people.
Graziano, Rocky. American boxer - world middleweight champion (1947-48)
(Note the grammatical mistake in the above quote =
"...learn guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'" should read:
"...teach guys like Brando and Newman to talk like me!'"
Did you
know?
meagre (Brit.) meager (US)
Synonyms:
bare, barren, deficient, exiguous, flimsy, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infertile, insubstantial, insufficient, little, meager, mere, minimum, miserable, paltry, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, spare, sparse, subtle, tenuous, unfinished, unfruitful, unproductive, wanting, weak, zilch
Synonyms:
bare, barren, deficient, exiguous, flimsy, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infertile, insubstantial, insufficient, little, meager, mere, minimum, miserable, paltry, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, spare, sparse, subtle, tenuous, unfinished, unfruitful, unproductive, wanting, weak, zilch
