barrels

Noun

Meaning

the amount that many barrels might hold

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Examples

Don't bail. The best of the gold's at the bottom of barrels of crap. Randy Pausch

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. Norbert Wiener

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters

Corsairs against corsairs, there is nothing to win but empty barrels. Italian Proverb

Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise. Greek Proverb

If you prune in April you'll fill your barrels not with wine, but with water. Sicilian Proverb

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