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trifles russian

  • крохобо́рство

    penny-pinching, pettiness about money, niggardliness

    hairsplitting, narrow pedantry, fussing over trifles

  • мелкоте́мье

    preoccupation with trivial themes, triviality of subject matter, dwelling on trifles

    concentration on narrow topics, narrow specialization, prevalence of highly specialized research

  • мелочиться

    to waste time on trifles, to niggle

  • разме́ниваться

    to exchange, to swap, to trade

    to exchange pieces

    to fritter away one's energies, to waste oneself (on trifles)

  • крохобо́рствующий

    penny-pinching, stingy, haggling (over trifles)

  • разменя́вшийся

    having frittered away (one's talent), having squandered (one's potential), having got bogged down (in trifles)

    having been changed (of money), having been broken (of a banknote)

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