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He could have been a butcher's son or a schoolteacher's son or even a civil servant's son — upon every topic he knew just enough to get by, veering away whenever he was in the slightest trouble.

Neil Gaiman: The thing that baffles me mostly now is, stuff that I wrote 17 years ago that I did not think was in the slightest bit contentious suddenly is.

But why in the name of Pronuptia, you may ask, would she be in the slightest bit interested in what I have to offer?

Even people who are just capable of saying something that is in the slightest degree new are few and far between".

Money talks but it also stops talk and, however cynical this might sound, there is absolutely nothing about the Chelsea story that is in the slightest bit surprising.

And unless you're into bargain basement levels of corporation tax, welfare caps and Putin, none of it is in the slightest bit left wing.

According to Fingleton, Hutton "had never been in the slightest difficulty".

Squid ink corzetti pasta (shaped like coins) were marvelously flavorful, with baby cuttlefish, radicchio, and a pistachio-mint sauce ($21) without being in the slightest fishy tasting, as this dish often is if the cuttlefish are not in peak condition.

I'm in the slight luxury of not being able to get myself fired.

But as we drove south, the only indicators of "hood" I saw were in the slight uptick of payday loan shops and homeless individuals.

The real uncertainty is in the word "slight".