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
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
Any offerings they could muster would be small potatoes compared with a private plane to Indonesia.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2023
I think it must be the god of small potatoes.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
