trifle
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1. trifle - Noun
2. trifle - Verb
Meaning
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any trifle.
It won't do to trifle with fire.
Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.