small change

Noun

Meaning

a trifling sum of money

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

chump change chickenfeed small potatoes loose change knut sou penny change money sixpence cheddar doubloon silver coin coinage
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Antonyms

big money greenback dollar dollar bill folding money renal
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Hypernyms

cash hard currency hard cash

Related terms

and change

Examples

Speech 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

Close letter words and terms

small cereal leaf beetle small cetacean small chain small chest small child small chops