small potatoes

Example Sentences

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So far, that’s relatively small potatoes, considering Bitcoin ETFs have some $101 billion in assets under management, according to FactSet data.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

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

These women squatting, knees wide apart in their long wrapped skirts, throwing handfuls of peppers and small potatoes into hissing pans over cookfires?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver