few and far between

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Rare and scarce; hard to find.

Đối diện của
far and wide, thick on the ground, common, widespread, abundant, ;, ubiquitous
Từ đồng nghĩa

almost never

not very much

be thinly scattered

Bản dịch

ganz vereinzelt

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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.

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