The phrase "a little candy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small amount of candy, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "After dinner, I like to treat myself to a little candy to satisfy my sweet tooth."
Alternatives: "a small piece of candy" or "a bit of candy."
"It used to be a little candy store, then it exploded to a big multinational conglomerate, but it's still run like a little candy store," Jacobson says.
"How 'bout a little candy from a stranger, hot stuff?" Mr. Roth ad-libbed, adding a weirdly predatory layer to the song.
Ms. Lewis invites a hundred or more people, breaks out the festive glassware and serves Veuve Clicquot, crudités, cupcakes "and maybe a little candy for color".
Called Gourmet Pops, they include smoked salmon wrapped around a cream cheese filling, creamy herbed goat cheese with a nubbly almond and pistachio coating, and foie gras that's glazed with port and cranberry jelly and looks like a little candy apple.
But Mr. Mesnier also fashioned a little candy Mexican boy who was leaning against the wall of the house, taking a siesta with a sombrero over his eyes -- an image that would have done nothing to help Mexican-American relations, and which a social secretary plucked off each platter.
Just a little candy to kick off your weekend: .
"It's kind of like a fun little candy box of stuff that I'm always passing around, like Santa giving people little gifts," she said.
Jimmy is a fucking little candy-ass liar who's gonna end up living in a trailer with his fat wife and their eight fat kids".
Sprinkle with a little crushed candy and serve.
Her crusty husband, Beano (the handle may have worked when he was a boy, but now that he was over sixty it sounded absurd), could probably use a little eye candy twitching onto their screened-in porch for sundowners: some narrow hips wrapped tightly in a fresh kikoi, long wet hair slicked back from a tanned, exertion-flushed face after a shower.
We need to stop the rhetoric about lazy people, about socialism and fascism and Hitler, and well, if we'd all just eat a little less candy!
