The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153987   Message #3610416
Posted By: Bert
17-Mar-14 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: A new unit of measure.
Subject: RE: BS: A new unit of measure.
Another unit that I heard used when I was an apprentice was 'a small nothing' and in context it actually made sense.

I had to take a sheet of metal to the shears with the instruction to cut a strip a 1/4 of an inch off one side tapering to nothing the other side. He said and make it a small nothing.