"thin pickings" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means a limited or insufficient amount of something. Example: After her divorce, Jane found herself with thin pickings when it came to job opportunities in her small town.
But he may have left his successor with thin pickings.
Thin pickings, but positively Proustian compared with the way he guarded his private life.
It's pretty thin pickings when it comes to easy-access accounts.
But the premature merger, the thin pickings the new group faces in its main markets, and the extra burden of integrating two proud empires are all formidable challenges.
It is fairly thin pickings out there, so it may be worth holding fire on your Isa to see if more competitive deals are launched in the coming days and weeks.
That could boost Wendy's market capitalisation to $8.3 billion, Pershing says, from $5.7 billion now.In this section Dark days for Volkswagen A new motown A PIP of progress Restoring magic Thin pickings A double dose of data Whirring, not purring India's high-flying liquor king ReprintsWendy's declines to comment on these proposals.
The other way round offers thinner pickings.
Solace, presumably, to those still at their desk as colleagues are turned out on the street.Still, panicky investors have pushed the shares of every major bank to their lowest level in years as they have watched falling stockmarkets, the thinnest of pickings for both mergers and acquisitions and the underwriting of new shares, and now the growing mass of litigation surrounding investment banks.
So thin are the pickings that it is possible to argue that one of the basic categories of Test cricketer – batsman, bowler, wicketkeeper, all-rounder – is in the process of simply wasting away.
Beyond that the pickings are thin.
As the market becomes more quality-conscious and more competitive, some of the weaker British universities are likely to find the pickings as thin abroad as they are at home.
