small potatoes

small potatoes
Informal.
a person or thing of little significance, importance, or value: His salary was small potatoes for an executive of his ability.
[1825-35]

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small potatoes (US)
Anything of no great worth
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Main Entry: ↑potato
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small potatoes plural noun (orig N American)
Someone or something (esp a sum of money) of little importance, value, significance, etc
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Main Entry: ↑small

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small potatoes UK US noun [plural] mainly american informal
small beer
Thesaurus: unimportant or unnecessary thing or detailsynonym unimportant person or peoplesynonym

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small potatoes,
U.S. Informal. an unimportant person or thing; unimportant persons or things: »

Against these increases, the cuts in spending looked like very small potatoes (Newsweek).

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informal something insignificant or unimportant

her business was small potatoes

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noun [noncount]
US informal : someone or something that is not important or impressive

Last week's storm was small potatoes compared to the blizzard we had two years ago.

These changes are small potatoes. [=(Brit, informal) small beer]

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ˌsmall poˈtatoes [small potatoes] (NAmE) (BrE ˌsmall ˈbeer) noun uncountable
(informal) a person or thing that has no great importance or value, especially when compared with sb/sth else
See also: ↑small beer

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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