A handful

Posted by Miri Barak on March 19, 2004

context:
"But just as they start to dig in, the party is crashed by a pack of Troodons. Smaller and smarter than Pod, these predators are *a handful*".

Yes, another kind of dinosaurs.
My question: a handful has two meanings: a few and wild, uncontrollable. According to this sentence, which meaning do you think right? Because there is some kind of contrast in this sentence which doesn't suit the first meaning of few, but I might be wrong, of course.

And thank you of course.

• A handful R. Berg 19/March/04
  • Thanks Miri Barak 19/March/04
    • A handful! Smokey Stover 21/March/04