quite the little...

quite the little...
quite the little... spoken phrase
used when you are annoyed about what someone has done and want to make it seem less important

Quite the little hero, aren’t you?

Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing when you are annoyed or angrysynonym
Main entry: little

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