Sentence examples for a very small pond from inspiring English sources

I was a very small fish in a very small pond.

Here you can be a big fish in a very small pond".

If we're only going to operate in one niche, that's a very small pond.

"I'm famous in a very small pond and they are part of a much bigger picture, but that's O.K".

This decrepitude leaves the well-paid Loopers looking like a future echo of the wiseguys in Grease; big fish flapping their fins over the edge of a very small pond.

Kinkade, who described the art world as "a very small pond... a very inbred pond," left behind a net worth that is in dispute.

New Zealand may be a very big fish in the very small pond of Oceania but Bahrain are favourites.

His hardcore band, the Beastie Boys, was getting bigger in the very small pond of downtown Manhattan.

There is a common misconception that wild bettas live in very small ponds, and therefore prefer smaller tanks.

But the Parliamentary Labour Party is a deeply unimpressive lot; only in a very small and stagnant pond would profound mediocrities like Hilary Benn or Angela Eagle be the biggest fish.

Its HERE maps division posted an IFRS-adjusted profit of €18 million — making it a very small fish in Nokia's pond right now (hence the talk of "long-term transformational growth opportunities").