When Roger Hodgson crooned to his anonymous paramour back in 1977, โGive a little bit of your love to me,โ so he might โgive a little bit of my life for you,โโฆ
Pettiness is a word that is on the way out. Google Books shows its usage down sharply since the middle of the 1960s, and many people have a hard time getting aโฆ