trivial thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftrivialandthing
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trivial
adjective
uk/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/us/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/
having little value ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition oftrivialandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It seems unnecessary to envisage all this happening over such atrivialthing.
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A patrol of 50 miles out is a comparativelytrivialthingin an aeroplane.
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Thistrivialthingwill have absolutely no effect.
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It was such atrivialthing, he said.
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It surely cannot be that one could not get some quitetrivialthing.
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That may seem to be atrivialthingin a bill dealing with such matters.
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It is a verytrivialthing—and even at that, their inclusion will prove temporary.
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We all know the damaging effects of this now somewhattrivialthing.
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It may be atrivialthingin connection with canteens or cinemas, but it may concern acute problems of metallurgy.
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That, however, is atrivialthingin comparison with the fact that it is pointing to the end of our financial stability.
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It is not atrivialthing.
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That stage is not atrivialthing.
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It seems to me ridiculous that the development of any industry should be checked by atrivialthingof this kind.
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The direction of time is not atrivialthing, but the backbone of the information contained in the narrative itself.
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Sometimes they are called out to deal with trivial things.
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Great spiritual renewals are often started over very trivial things.
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I believe that the functions of the commissioners leave them with nothing that matters—only trivial things.
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The real object of joint consultations is to meet and defeat these fears and not talk about canteens and trivial things of that kind.
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Riots one did experience, and time after time we were called out to repel riots, often caused by what we would think were trivial things.
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I am merely emphasising the point that prosecutions and convictions that are possible for these very trivial things are not in fact very frequent.
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