fleabite

I am not interested in your provincial attempts to diminish and enclose the question to a fleabite.

Whose Hand Have You Refused to Shake? 2007

About how terrific everything smelled this minute, and how great that scratch behind the ear felt on a fleabite.

Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

About how terrific everything smelled this minute, and how great that scratch behind the ear felt on a fleabite.

Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

And I tried to make her feel a fleabite on her ankle.

Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

And then, still in a reasonable voice, "I've never found it necessary, Dr. Quental, to seek medical aid for a fleabite."

River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982

His most towering rage, controlled only by supreme expenditures of effort, was met with no more reaction than the bite of a flea; less, for a fleabite is at least scratched.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

It was a fleabite to them apparently, but it was the hell of a lot of money to me.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I had paid six hundred pounds for one and four hundred and fifty for the other; they were a fleabite in the total value of my aeroplanes, and both of them were pretty well written down in the accounts.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

The water problem is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all.

Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Keith Henderson 1932

It is eighty miles third-class and more; it is thirty or less first-class; it is a flash in a train _de luxe, _ and a mere fleabite as a bribe to a journalist.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911