bits and pieces

Meaning

1. Editorial88% of films

   incomplete scraps of information, memory, or detail, not a whole account

   I don't know much but bits and pieces. I hear things.

   We have only bits and pieces of information.

2. Oxford13% of films

   small objects or items of various kinds

In the movies · 11

• We have only bits and pieces of information.The Matrix1999
• I don't know much but bits and pieces. I hear things.Blue Velvet1986
• All his little bits and bobs.Another Year2010
• Whatever bits and pieces I can recall, at least.Mysterious Skin2005
• How it all increases! All them bits and pieces!Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• I farm bits and pieces out...The Fly1986
• The bits and pieces you never bothered to put into words.Memento2000
• You've made all this up out of bits and pieces in your head.Twelve Monkeys1995

Learn it in full scenes

• Blue Velvet1986
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey About the Singer
  • Jeffrey Plans the Apartment Break-In
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey Her Robin Dream
• Another Year2010
  • A Woman Asks for Sleeping Pills
  • Janet Rates Her Happiness
  • Mary Confides in Gerri Over Drinks

From the same entry

• be in bits
• the … bit
• bit by bit
• a bit much
• a bit of a
• a bit of all right
• a bit of rough
• a bit on the side
• do your bit
• every bit as good, bad
• get the bit between your teeth
• not a bit

More idioms

• get your hands dirty
• on the road
• at a distance
• a high profile
• from top to bottom
• have a way with
• put in a word for
• take breath away
• with your eyes shut
• at best
• in short
• keep your distance