"precious little else"
Ï want to end a list with "precious little else" (e.g., ït had __, __ and precious little else). I know it's colloquial, and I could just translate it "poco más" or "no mucho más," but I would really like to maintain the sense of the phrase if at all possible. Would it be correct to say "... y poco más precioso"?
2 Answers
I will add a litle more to Jeremías' comment: you need a noun for "else". In this case you will say "muy poco más" or - maybe more common - "muy poquito más".
I think your original instincts were pretty good. According to WordReference.com, precious little is "muy poco/pocos".
Preciado, the past participle of preciar, means prized or valued. Precious translates more to precioso, but does not convey the meaning of "precious little else", where precious means "darned" - darned little else.
