few and far between

Anlam (İngilizce)

Rare and scarce; hard to find.

Karşısında

far and wide, thick on the ground, common, widespread, abundant, ;, ubiquitous

Eş anlamlılar

almost never

sparse

not very much

be thinly scattered

Çeviriler

ganz vereinzelt

rares

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

Attested at least since the 17th century. Was originally reserved for physical objects, such as houses, appearing with wide gaps between, but today it is also applied to more abstract things. Being rare also implies that the average gaps between the objects are wide.