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small potatoes

noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)
  1. a person or thing of little significance, importance, or value:

    His salary was small potatoes for an executive of his ability.



small potatoes

noun

  1. informal.
    someone or something of little significance or value, esp a small amount of money
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of small potatoes1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

Endorsing a path to citizenship for DREAM Act recipients is fine, but small potatoes.

“Sports franchises are very, very small potatoes,” Leeds said.

This is pretty small potatoes compared to what Bush supported.

And the successful strike against Osama bin Laden the next day made the whole episode seem, in retrospect, like small potatoes.

Defrauding a $187 million estate seems like decidedly small potatoes in the age of Madoff and massive government bailouts.

Besides a few small potatoes, one dried goat ham was all our zealous friends could procure.

Of course we won't bother with them tomorrow night, for that is small potatoes compared to the jewel plot.

For this purpose, small potatoes that are not suitable for other methods of preparation may be used.

But I suppose they'd look like small potatoes to anybody who's seen Rome.

Crahauns or Kirraghauns; very small potatoes not used by the family: given to pigs.

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