0 a sweet cold dish consisting of a layer of fruit and cake, a layer of custard (= thick, sweet, yellow sauce) and a top layer of cream: --
a sherry trifle
1 a matter or object of little value or importance: --
2 a matter or item of little value or importance --
A trifle in a glass bowl, neatly cut bread already buttered, and of course, that most essential for all significant occasions, the red salmon.
Finally, she ar ticulates the object son'na no 'such things', a deictic expression which devalues the eggs themselves as trifling.
An analytic judgment is a trifling judgment that expresses an implicit or explicit identity.
We are talking about one million, and one million it is not a trifle.
They think it does have interests in life that must not be trifled with.
We have been trifled with, - tantalized too long, - a natural result of our temporizings hesitations.
To the development economist, environmental matters thus appeared a trifle precious, not wholly relevant to the urgencies of poor countries.
Care is taken to avoid hurting the other's feelings and to go along with the other rather than make a fuss over trifles.
