Definition of Trickle

Trickle

The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

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Trickle Quotations

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
Keith Haring

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Elias Canetti

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
Kevin J. Anderson

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Andrew Mellon

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
Mike Leigh

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Trickle Translations

trickle in Spanish is goteo
trickle in Swedish is sippra, drypa

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