Talk:few and far between
Latest comment: 25 days ago by Kai Burghardt in topic thick and fast
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Keene (talk • contribs)'s definition "rare and scarce" is crappy. --Rockpilot 18:29, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Why? 86.183.2.73 20:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps because (deprecated template usage) rare and (deprecated template usage) scarce are synonyms in the applicable sense, whereas the expression implies something beyond mere rarity or scarcity, perhaps being "hard to find". DCDuring TALK 21:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks fine now --Celui qui crée ébauches de football anglais (talk) 10:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
compositional
[edit]Isn't this one easily understood compositionally from it's parts of speech? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Isn't it an antonym? JMGN (talk) 23:19, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- @JMGN: No, not quite. Thick and fast conveys two qualities, the number and the rate (rapid), whereas few and far between is just associated with a number. To be an antonym all qualities need to be inverted. ‑‑ Kai Burghardt (talk) 21:08, 8 August 2024 (UTC)