every little helps

every little helps
Cf. 1590 G. MEURIER Deviz Familiers A6 peu ayde, disçoit le formy, pissant en mer en plein midy, every little helps, said the ant, pissing into the sea at midday.

1602 P. GAWDY Letters (1906) 118 The wrenn sayde all helpte when she—in the sea.

1623 W. CAMDEN Remains concerning Britain (ed. 3) 268 Euery thing helpes, quoth the Wren when she pist i’ the sea.

1787 E. HAZARD in Collections of Massachusetts Hist. Society (1877) 5th ser. II. 477 A guinea is a guinea, and every little helps.

1840 MARRYAT Poor Jack xiii. It’s a very old saying, that every little helps... Almost all the men were on the larboard side.

1988 J. MORTIMER Rumpole and Age of Miracles (1989) 48 ‘I’ll get him to make a few inquiries relative to the bird in question. Every little helps.’


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