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Ansiite Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

A little goes a long way

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Please help! How to understand this idiom?
  

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I'm not sure it's an idiom. You only need a little bit of whatever it is to have a big effect or last a long time.

— BarbaraPA

  • I'm not sure it's an idiom.
  • You only need a little bit of whatever it is to have a big effect or last a long time.
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I'm not sure it's an idiom.
You only need a little bit of whatever it is to have a big effect or last a long time.
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I think it's an idiom. If as you reach for the cayenne pepper for the chili we are cooking, I say "Careful, a little goes a long way," I don't really mean that anything's going to go anywhere. Except perhaps our dinner guests.
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Okay, I'l buy that. It seems pretty - well, not quite literal to me, but not fully idiomatic. But either way, a little bit does a lot.
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Actually, I believe it means too much of some things are not good.

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