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Few is a proportion of the total population of a object.
Numerically few is greater than a couple
He Took a few apples and gave a couple of them away
Few by anonymous February 16, 2026

Few Understand This 

A Twitter statement indicating one belongs to an exclusive club of those suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect. Typically occurs following a statement that most, save the person who wrote it, understand.
"Self-criticism is essential for self-enhancement. Few Understand This."
- Professor Scott Galloway

few extra pounds

A euphemism for a "lot of extra pounds"

Few fries short of a happy meal 

a much more humorous way of defining your friend as retarded.
Friend 1: Donny is eating paste...

Friend 2: Yeah, he's a few fries short of a happy meal.

Friend 1: dude i got in a car crash yesterday

Friend 2: did you survive!?

Friend 1: your a few fries short of a happy meal arent you?

Friend 2: ....... "o look a butterfly"

Few apples short of a fruitcake 

A snowclone to express that someone is either stupid or crazy. The standard format is "a few X short of (a) Y", the idea being that Y is something that, with a few X missing, is not so good, and in the case of a person being compared to such, that something is "missing" in their thought process.
This one in particular has the appeal that fruitcakes involve nuts, thus further solidifying the point that the person is nuts themselves.
Did you see how Bob just flipped out over nothing. Is he having some sort of psychotic break?
Yeah, he seems to be a few apples short of a fruitcake. Might be best to keep our distance.

few scoops 

Barry: “What’s the point I’m going out?”

Larry: “Few scoops man”
few scoops by masterblaster_69 September 13, 2018