The phrase
"little pond" means a small or limited environment or community. It refers to a situation where someone or something may have more importance or power because they are in a smaller group or setting compared to a larger one. It suggests that in a small or limited context, someone or something can stand out or have a bigger impact.
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Lots of big fish
in little ponds gather their little groups of «Untouchables.»
We are complex creatures, and could not have arisen «just by chance» out of a brew of chemicals, even in some
warm little pond of the kind envisaged by Charles Darwin.
Darwin speculated that our microbial Eve arose from a «warm
little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts.»
That should make for plenty of warm,
scummy little ponds where life could come together to begin billions of years of evolution toward technology - wielding creatures like ourselves.
My dogs have destroyed my lawn, now that they're a little older and not so destructive, I totally could do some landscaping,
LOVE little ponds too
Are you thinking of naming your new puppy Walden because everywhere he goes he
leaves little ponds?
There's a notice about missing rubber duckies on the outer walls and a
plain little pond in the middle.
He's a big fish in
the little pond of his world, and everything he does has an effect.
That way, you can be a big fish in
a little pond.
What about being a big fish in
a little pond?
Does your personality lend itself to a large campus community, or would you prefer to be a big fish in
a little pond?
Now, in
that little pond by the path deep in the mountain.
Perhaps
the little pond of death in the song can refer to the planet earth as a whole and to the global biosphere.
Otherwise it looks like Pennant will once again be the big fish in
a little pond, staring into the murkiness of another relegation battle.
Yes he may improve as a big fish in
a little pond.
I like Ozil, and appreciate his finesse in terms of the passes he can provide however the lack of fire in his belly and inability to drive the game leaves me feeling he is just a big fish in
a little pond.
Some fans are just ignorant of the larger picture, the kids who have taken Chavski to where they are now are kids that are not getting promoted and as such stay big fish in
a little pond.
Hopefully it gets cold enough up here on the North Shore that I can play
a little pond hockey, but that's besides the point.
I think the biggest pain for me after that game is seeing Gnabry do well at WB, Wenger wanted to keep him but instead of staying and fighting for his spot, he ran off to be a big fish in
a little pond.
Let him settle down there for at least a year in the role of a big fish who likes ruling
his little pond.
Down here, you're a little fish in
a little pond.»
Wish we had seen frog eggs this spring but
our little ponds just did not cooperate this year.
It features shops, a library currently under construction and a scenic, small amphitheater and gazebo around
a little pond.
Set up
a little pond in your backyard.
Perfect example of a big fish in
a little pond that gets gobbled up when moved in with the sharks....
Either that it began in deep sea hydrothermal vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin's «warm
little pond.»
Instead, hot springs on land, similar to the «warm
little pond» favoured by Charles Darwin, may be a better fit for life's nursery.
Nevertheless, McGown refuses to conclude that Darwin's «warm
little pond» must have actually been a hot hydrothermal vent.
Charles Darwin proposed in 1871 that life originated in a «warm
little pond».
John Sutherland and his colleagues at the University of Manchester in England argue that the precursors came together in a warm - water solution, reminiscent of Charles Darwin's notion that life began in some «warm
little pond.»
He doesn't need to find sediment laid down by plankton at the bottom of some warm
little pond.
Perhaps the most famous is Darwin's «warm
little pond» — a soup of organic chemicals bathed in sunlight.
Deep rocks have been cracked open and water isolated for billions of years released — the liquid may represent Darwin's «warm
little pond» where life arose
Darwin suggested this might have happened in «some warm
little pond ``.
«I would say this is as close as we have come to bottling the warm
little pond, in a warm little fracture,» says Sherwood Lollar.
Did it begin, as Charles Darwin once remarked, in «a warm
little pond» where molecules first learnt to replicate, or did it begin in the depths of oceans, where hydrothermal vents provided the energy for early life to appear?
We all need to have experiences being the big fish in
the little pond and the little fish in the big pond.
Peis had long before decided that it was far better to be a big fish in
a little pond than the other way around.
Acer is fishing in
a little pond with its Iconia W510 tablet, a 10.1 - inch tablet with a detachable keyboard, which sounds a little bit like the Acer version of ASUS's Transformer series.
We have
a little pond of them in front of our store too.
When NIKE was only 8 weeks old I took him to
a little pond for some of our «socialization hikes» and let him get familiar with the edge of the water.
Wat Nam Hoo is a very small and average looking temple found above
a little pond.
This serene garden is a haven for lush plants, trees and
little ponds.
The papyrus in the water garden is so lush, mine doesn't quite have the same feel in
the little pond i've created.
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