small potatoes
Noun
Meaning
small potatoes pl (plural only)
(idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers.
He no longer works for individuals, since they are small potatoes compared to his corporate clients.
small‐potatoes pl (plural only)
Alternative spelling of small potatoes
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small-potatoes
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Examples
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
But Stone and Lewandowski are small potatoes compared to some of the new hires Trump has brought aboard since he clinched the nomination and expressed the desire to appear more presidential.
And now that I’ve written about both of those things in almost side by side fashion, I can see that having a non-housebroken dog is really small potatoes.
I subbed small potatoes for the acorn squash.
Ingredients (four people): bunch of watercress (rinsed), 1 medium-sized onion (diced), 3 small potatoes (diced), 40g butter, 1l vegetable or chicken stock, 10cl creme fraiche, 1 bay leaf (optional), nutmeg, salt and pepper.