"Petty pace" refers to a slow, insignificant, or trivial progression through life or time. The phrase is often associated with Shakespeare's "Macbeth," where it conveys a sense of monotonous, unremarkable movement towards death. It emphasizes the idea that life can feel tedious and lacking in meaning as one moves through its stages.
Petty, from the French petit (small) means minor in terms of rank or importance, as in petty officer, petty cash or petty theft. In terms of personality it means mean-spirited, low, ungracious. The official definition of the word petty is "of little importance; trivial."
it mean petty funny and cool!!
pace in drama means tempo
Probably "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day" from Macbeth
To argue in a petty manner
- make trivial objections: to argue over unimportant things and make petty objections - petty objection: an unimportant distinction or petty objection
No. It is worse than petty. That would be selfish and mean-spirited.
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Most of the words in Shakespeare mean exactly what you think they mean. For example: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. 'Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" Tomorrow means tomorrow. Creeps means creeps. Petty mean small and insignificant. Pace means pace. Day means day. Syllable means syllable. Recorded means recorded. Time means time. Yesterdays, lighted, fools, dusty, death, candle, life, walking and shadow all mean what you think they mean. A player is an actor. Strutting we still do, also fretting which is usually accompanied by fussing. An idiot is someone who speaks English and does not understand 95% of the words in Shakespeare.
to walk at a slow pace
to walk at a slow pace