drop in the bucket

But when it comes to reining in California’s sprawling black market, experts say it’s just a drop in the bucket.

The money the party has moved into Texas so far, he noted, is just a “drop in the bucket” in such a large state.

John Paul Coonrod, the store's board president and chair, said he told Canty during her visit that the state's initiative amounted to a "drop in the bucket" for what small grocers need to survive.

“It’s a drop in the bucket,” she said.

It’s a drop in the bucket for a former president who has already been fined hundreds of millions of dollars by the New York Attorney General’s Office for fraud.