Converse of object

• become: Squeezed between DL and Sinn Fein, the WP became electorally a minnow.

• have: If you do, did they have a minnow or a shark?

• face: The sharks position themselves inside the grid facing the minnows.

• use: We were both going to use minnows as bait as these had proved highly successful during my recent visits.

Converse of subject

• post: Posted by minnow on 27 December, 2003 at 10:08 PM 2 things, 1. WTF is this washing tablet thing about?

Adjective modifier

• plucky: Plucky minnows Wrexham, who knock out Premiership West Ham United with a heartbreaking goal in the final minute... ?

• non-league: The following year saw him join non-league minnows Bacup Boro.

• golden: My first, surprise, batch of eggs belonged to golden minnows.

• European: Griffiths, S. W. ( 1997 ) Preferences for familiar fish do not vary with predation risk in the European minnow.

• tiny: From the tiny minnow to the huge leviathan, do not all creatures that swim in the waters laud and magnify His great Name?

Modifies a noun

• stock: Tips & tactics Each week our small caps experts reveal minnow stocks that are set to fly, or dive.

Noun used with modifier

• muddler: I changed the tail fly for a large muddler minnow, greased it up and skated it across the surface.

Preposition: in

• pond: I am just a minnow in a great pond of Soul people out there.

• term: And the mid-sized hatch, of course, is a motoring minnow in terms of mass.