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Small World

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What does Small World mean?

phrase

  1. Ellipsis of it's a small world.

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A woman had entered his small world and instantly there was discord.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165
She recalled his watch-words—Unity—Imagination, and saw again the bubbles meeting in her tea-cup as he spoke of sisters and canaries, boyhood and his father, her small world becoming wonderfully enlarged.
Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutProject Gutenberg ebook #144
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For one reason, there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world, as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it left.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70