drop in the ocean

“Regardless of whether it works or not, this is just a drop in the ocean.”

But they were "a drop in the ocean" when compared with likely real figures estimated at 17 million annually – which has "devastating consequences for businesses and families".

It said the £600m in funding was "a drop in the ocean compared to the staggering £2.4bn in rising costs associated with wage increases and employer national insurance contributions".

“Some of these films, in the context of that massive bandwidth of Netflix, you’re like a drop in the ocean,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.

For the nation's top 5%, the projected changes from Trump's proposed tax policy are a "drop in the ocean," Wamhoff said.