Noun
a trifling sum of money
Source: WordNetSpeech is the small change of silence. George Meredith
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. Charles Dickens
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. George Santayana
A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. Daniel Kahneman
Popularity is the small change of glory. French Proverb
A broke merchant counted his small change. Turkish Proverb