every little bit helps
Meaning: Even a small contribution is worth having.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “I can only donate ten euros, but every little bit helps.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: An old encouragement, recorded in English from the 17th century, often in the form "every little helps."
Equivalents in other languages
- Italian: Tutto fa brodo — literally: Everything makes broth
More idioms — Daily Life
- get the wrong end of the stick — To misunderstand something completely.
- on tenterhooks — In anxious suspense.
- on the ropes — Close to defeat or collapse.
- move with the times — To keep up with change instead of clinging to old ways.
- beat the drum for something — To promote something loudly and publicly.
- any old how — Carelessly, with no attention to doing it properly.
More English idioms
- have a bee in one's bonnet — To be obsessed with one idea.
- put down roots — To settle somewhere permanently.
- start off on the wrong foot — To begin something badly.
- take one's breath away — To astonish someone with beauty or surprise.
- go away empty-handed — To get nothing at all.
- hit rock bottom — To reach the lowest possible point.