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small stuff

noun

, Nautical.
  1. small cordage, as marlines, yarns, etc.


small stuff

noun

  1. nautical any light twine or yarn used aboard ship for serving lines, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of small stuff1

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

Unlike the CERN researchers I do not “sweat the small stuff”.

Quantum theory explains the small stuff, where matter and energy divide into infinitesimal particles.

Big achievements take sweat, which you no longer have for the small stuff.

I was struck then, as I am now, that a team with so much going for it is sweating the small stuff.

Of course, why sweat the small stuff when Aaron Sorkin is already working on the screenplay?

A little bin best fits a little bread, A little garland fits a little head; As my small stuff best fits my little shed.

Larch put off another entertainment of small stuff, with a fifty megaton thermonuclear, viewscreen-piloted, among them.

I also got a lot of small stuff I'd written for from the mail-order house, little feminine things a woman simply has to have.

There could have been something—small stuff, but nothing large like bundles or anything like that.

The so-called "Tower" dry kiln (see Fig. 38) is designed for the rapid drying of small stuff in quantities.

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