The phrase "as a mite" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered incorrect or unclear.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express something being very small or insignificant, but it is quite rare.
Example: "He was as a mite compared to the towering figure beside him."
Alternatives: "as small as a pin" or "as tiny as a speck."
Perhaps in his understandable sensitivity, he heard the comments as a mite more savage than they were?
A single wrong word before the TV cameras can sabotage the best-funded campaign but so too could a silence that the voters recognise as a mite too studied.
The prevailing mood is that Henin, a monster disguised as a mite, firmly back now at the highest level after 20 months contemplating the meaning of life, will blow away the brittle if sometimes brilliant Russian beauty, coming off a 10-month rehabilitation programme on her right shoulder.
Once, when his father was watching John play as a mite in Central Park, a lady approached and asked: "Is that a little boy or a midget?" The helter-skelter welter of wordage since 1977 has stopped us noticing that John McEnroe was neither boy nor midget.
He never went as a fly, but one year he did go as a mite, what he called those "nasty things" as they can infest Drosophila cultures, rendering as much blood-curdling mayhem as visit by the Grim Reaper himself.
It's even possible that the spiders use some chemical attractant, such as a mite pheromone, to lure them to the webs, he said.
Fun furs, as they were euphemistically called by their marketers, were as dense as a rug, though a mite more glamorous, enveloping the wearer in a sumptuous pile that might have been salvaged from "Wild Kingdom".
Putin's shootout goal brought to mind a mite as well.
She can seem a mite careless as well as decisive.
Now, is saying that the House GOP "never asked for a full repeal of Obamacare," as Labrador maintained a mite disingenuous?
(This applies to thoughts as well as to things: minds work a mite differently in America's two capital cities of cultural production — not that it matters greatly now for culture, swamped as it is in glowing, placeless pixels).
