small potatoes

Example Sentences

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That might sound like small potatoes, but it really is big bucks.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

At the end of the day, some might see all these matters I’ve raised as small potatoes.

From Slate • May 22, 2025

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

Yet it is also true that the very same troubles that loom catastrophically large one day can seem like small potatoes the next, particularly if even worse troubles have popped up to take their place.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood