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Can I use "small" and "little" together to express irony and contempt?
I know the difference between small and little. I see that they are not so commonly used together, in any case less commonly than tiny little, as this Ngram shows.
Here is one example that does not ...
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Connotation of a sentence in a listening material from TPO
(Here for the original audio source (MP3 file). The part in question begins approximately at 2'18'')
This conversation is an excerpt from one listening material in a TPO (TOEFL Practice Online) test, ...
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