Welcome to another episode of QuickTalks.
Today's idiom, or expression is a drop in the bucket.
A drop in the bucket.
And a drop in the bucket means a very, very small amount of something, much less than is needed.
So you need a lot more of something, but you only get one little bit.
One drop.
Okay, so one drop in a bucket is like a bucket contains hundreds of thousands, if not million drops, depending on the size of the bucket.
And one drop of water or liquid is not going to be enough.
It's just a very tiny amount of what is actually needed.
So, for example, we might use this expression if there's a fundraiser, like a charity, and they want to raise $100,000 for.
To help someone.
And so of that 100,000, maybe one person donates a dollar.
Well, $1 is not enough.
We need $100,000.
So $1 is just a drop in the bucket.
Okay.
So we use it to describe.
It's not, it does not make, it's not a negative thing where you're saying like, it's kind of like saying, we have a long way to go.
We're not finished yet.
This is just a drop in the bucket.