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in a little
b. A short time or (less commonly) distance. Chiefly in after a little, for a little, in a little.‘A short distance’ is frequent in adverbial use: see sense B. 4b.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > a short or moderate space of time
weekeOE
littleOE
roomOE
stoundOE
startc1300
houra1350
furlong wayc1384
piecea1400
weea1400
speed whilec1400
hanlawhilea1500
snack1513
spirt?1550
snatch1563
fit1583
spurta1591
shortness1598
span1599
bit1653
thinking time1668
thinking-while1668
onwardling1674
way-bit1674
whilie1819
fillip1880
the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance
wurpc950
stepc1000
footc1300
furlong wayc1384
stone-casta1387
straw brede14..
tinec1420
weec1420
field-breadth1535
field-broad1535
pair of butts1545
straw-breadth1577
stone's throw1581
way-bit?1589
space1609
piece1612
littlea1616
spirt1670
a spit and a stride1676
hair's breadth1706
rope's length1777
biscuit throw1796
a whoop and a holler1815
biscuit toss1836
biscuit cast1843
stone-shot1847
pieceway1886
stone-put1896
pitch-and-putt1925
pieceways1932
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxii. 58 Et post pussillum alius uidens eum dixit et tu de illis es : & æfter lytlum uel ymb lytle huile oðer gesæh hine cuoeð & ðu of him uel ðæm arð.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 16 Nu ymbe alytel [c1200 Hatton an lytel] ge me ne geseoð & eft embe lytel ge me geseoþ.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xvi. 16 A litil, and now ȝe schulen not se me.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 7047 Sone aftyrward, with-yn a lytyl was þere wryte anoþer tytyl.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 129v Lengys here at a litill lystyn my wordes.
1562 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 289 Alettell before we dede heare of matters myche nedfull & wourthie to be amended.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Pet. ii. 18 They allure..those that were cleane [margin. Or, for a little, or a while] escaped from them who liue in errour. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 267 For a little Follow, and doe me seruice. View more context for this quotation
1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Sept. (1971) IV. 293 Up pretty betimes and after a little at my Viall, to my office.
1715 J. Fergusson tr. Rom. Conduct in quashing Catiline's Conspiracy 118 It would be a severe Pinch upon them to have their Shops shut up for a little.
1768 Monthly Rev. July 47 In a little we were told that dinner was served up.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. F. H. K. de La Motte Fouqué in German Romance I. 293 In a little, he and Froda left the inn.
1881 W. H. Mallock Romance 19th Cent. II. 290 Be here then and we will go for a little into the garden.
1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles ix. 100 Waiters like to take the weight off their feet for a little.
1995 S. Barry Only True Hist. Lizzie Finn i, in Plays: One (1997) 179 I don't like a person to put shame to me. (After a little.) My mother went barefoot all her life.
extracted from littleadj.pron.n.adv.
in a little
g. in a little: in a few words, briefly. Obsolete.See also sense B. 3b.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short
at a (also one) wordOE
at few wordsOE
shortly1303
in short wordsc1380
oncec1384
in short and plainc1386
in sum?a1425
at short wordsa1450
at short1513
briefly?1521
in a word1522
in one word1522
with a word1522
summa1535
to be short1544
in (the) fine1545
in few1550
summarily1567
in a sum1574
in shorta1577
in brief1609
briefa1616
in a little1623
tout court1747
sans phrase1808
in a nutshell1822
in nuce1854
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 12 But pray how past it?.. Ile tell you in a little.
1645 H. Prime Compassionate Christ Pref. sig. A3v This Treatise tells us in a little, how the Kingdome of heaven is laid in the small, but sure beginnings of Gospell bruisings.
extracted from littleadj.pron.n.adv.
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