a small matter
English
Adverb
- (obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Dialogue 2:
- […] if that it were possible to remove the impediment of the Air, which resisting penetration, doth some small matter retard and impede the motion of the pendulum.
- 1788, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, section 79.4:
- The socket and spindle being a small matter taper.
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “a small matter”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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