It would also join together two chronic underperformers. Last year Deutsche's return on equity, a puny 0.4%, was its first positive figure for four years.
And even five pretzels—yes, puny little pretzels out of a bag—would take six-and-a-half minutes of jumping up and down whenever your team scores a touchdown.
India and Pakistan, mutually antagonistic, account for a fifth of all living humans, yet their bilateral trade is puny, at less than $3 billion a year.
When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders, Conseil added, think how we'll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man!
In a crushing put down, Turner shrinks the mighty commander to a puny, almost comical figure in the remote background, atop an elephant that looks more like a dung beetle.
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.