trifling matter

Example Sentences

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"We don't view arms sales as a trifling matter, and we have back-up plans," he added, without elaborating.

From Reuters • May 5, 2022

For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Those late starts were no trifling matter; last season, they often featured LeBron James’s Los Angeles Lakers and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019

Money has to be part of the calculus now because college debt in the United States is no trifling matter.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2018

The train was behind time,—a trifling matter in itself, but, in our situation, each minute might turn the scale between death and life.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William