precious little

English

almost nothing; hardly anything
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:
  Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.
- 2007, Darryl Brock, If I Never Get Back, page 22:
  Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches.

almost nothing; hardly anything

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