sliver

We’re talking about a tiny, tiny sliver of the population.”

In Italian cuisine, it’s called piccata, which refers to a thin sliver of meat.

Nick Curtis was more cutting with his two star review in the Standard, saying Paddington in Peru "misses the easy charm, the fluency and the icy sliver of jeopardy" from the first two movies "which had genuine cross-generational appeal".

I can just express what I know a lot of women have been feeling: exhausted sadness that any sliver of joy this campaign season had has been sucked away by a vindictive, babbling old man and his crybaby minions.

When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, America still had a sliver of plausible deniability.