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slender reed

noun

Definitions

  1. A person, fact, or resource on which one can rely only to a limited extent.

    • "It was perfectly natural for you to think that a lad of eighteen was a slender reed to lean on in the time of trouble and danger."
    • "It is a slender reed," Gilbert said, "for so mighty an issue to rest upon."
    • Yet these precedents offer no more than a slender reed for Gordon Brown, almost hopelessly down in the polls, to cling to.

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