small potatoes

Example Sentences

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Then, in the end, on the other side of this, you decide how you deal with the small potatoes.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Vanguard Total International Stock had the largest inflows for foreign funds, but at $4.5 billion, it’s small potatoes compared with Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

Too many small potatoes were swept up in the indictment.

From Salon • May 15, 2024

“It is not small potatoes, it is not this small, incremental change in the way that the world works,” he said, stabbing the tip of his pencil into his notebook.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 25, 2023

“That’s just small potatoes, Mama. Let’s pray for something big,” Mary Anne deadpanned.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy