A drop in the ocean
An amount so small it makes almost no difference.
Muối bỏ bể.
Quá ít ỏi so với nhu cầu, gần như không thấm vào đâu.
A drop in the ocean
Examples
The donation was generous but still a drop in the ocean.
Khoản quyên góp tuy hào phóng nhưng vẫn chỉ như muối bỏ bể.
One extra engineer is a drop in the ocean on a project this size.
Với một dự án cỡ này, thêm một kỹ sư chỉ như muối bỏ bể.
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Related idioms
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bushsame topic
- Many a little makes a micklesimilar meaning
- At the drop of a hateasily confused
- One drop of poison infects the whole of wineeasily confused
- Throw a sprat to catch a mackerelsame topic
- Kill the goose that lays the golden eggssame topic