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"Tiny but powerful". -- expressions, proverbs
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Hen Hanna
Apr 25, 2016, 7:24:27 PM4/25/16
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On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 1:25:50 AM UTC-7, Ed House wrote:
> Good day!
> I am trying to find of a word that means (or epitomizes) "Tiny but powerful". It could be a one-word metaphor or a simple adjective or noun. The would would ideally be suited to describing or illustrating such things as:
> 1) a tiny pill that has prodigious effects
> 2) a small bomb with disproportionately devastating destructive power
> 3) An simple, easy action that produces cataclysmic effects
chain-reaction, butterfly effect
>
> Can anyone suggest anything?
>
> Many thanks!
> EDH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Ant
Mighty Mouse
Mighty-Mouse-like
Mighty-Mouse-esque
"Small head but great wit"
sic parvis magna
greatness from small beginnings
Motto of Sir Francis Drake
HH
Anton Shepelev
Apr 26, 2016, 4:38:28 AM4/26/16
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Hen Hanna to Ed House:
> > I am trying to find of a word that means (or
> > epitomizes) "Tiny but powerful". It could be a
> > one-word metaphor or a simple adjective or noun.
> > The would would ideally be suited to describing
> > or illustrating such things as:
> >
> > 1. a tiny pill that has prodigious effects
> >
> > 2. a small bomb with disproportionately dev-
> > astating destructive power
> >
> > 3. An simple, easy action that produces cata-
> > clysmic effects
>
> chain-reaction, butterfly effect
Speaking of proverbs, "A bedbug is small yet bites
painfully."
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> > I am trying to find of a word that means (or
> > epitomizes) "Tiny but powerful". It could be a
> > one-word metaphor or a simple adjective or noun.
> > The would would ideally be suited to describing
> > or illustrating such things as:
> >
> >
> > 2. a small bomb with disproportionately dev-
> > astating destructive power
> >
> > 3. An simple, easy action that produces cata-
> > clysmic effects
>
> chain-reaction, butterfly effect
Speaking of proverbs, "A bedbug is small yet bites
painfully."
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Hen Hanna
Apr 26, 2016, 1:22:23 PM4/26/16
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On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 1:38:28 AM UTC-7, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Hen Hanna to Ed House:
>
> > > I am trying to find of a word that means (or
> > > epitomizes) "Tiny but powerful". It could be a
> > > one-word metaphor or a simple adjective or noun.
> > > The would would ideally be suited to describing
> > > or illustrating such things as:
> > >
> > > 1. a tiny pill that has prodigious effects
> > >
> > > 2. a small bomb with disproportionately dev-
> > > astating destructive power
> > >
> > > 3. An simple, easy action that produces cata-
> > > clysmic effects
> >
> > chain-reaction, butterfly effect
>
> Speaking of proverbs, "A bedbug is small yet bites
> painfully."
>
wtvr.com-2016/04/19
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. -- A New York woman's multi-million-dollar lawsuit against an Albemarle County hotel over bed bugs will go to a jury after a federal judge ruled in her favor Tuesday. Janie Mcfarland and her ...
$5 million -- that's painful.
Even a worm will turn. -- turn ? writhe in agony ?
tread on a worm and it will turn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_a_worm_will_turn
HH
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