- small fry, small potatoes
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small fry, small potatoes
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small potatoes — noun One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers. Syn: peanuts, small beer, small fry … Wiktionary
small potatoes — Synonyms and related words: Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, cipher, common man, dummy, figurehead, fourth rater, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, middle… … Moby Thesaurus
small — O.E. smæl slender, narrow, small, from P.Gmc. *smalaz (Cf. O.S., Dan., Swed., M.Du., Du., O.H.G. smal, O.Fris. smel, Ger. schmal narrow, Goth. smalista smallest, O.N. smali small cattle, sheep ), perhaps from a PIE root * (s)melo smaller animal … Etymology dictionary
small — 1 /smO:l/ adjective 1 SIZE not large in size or amount: He s a small man, only five feet tall. | Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe. | No, not that one the small one with the red handle! | a smaller increase in the inflation… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
small fry — noun a) One or more small or immature fish. The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was small fry compared to his boss. b) One or more children. These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room. Syn … Wiktionary
fry — fry1 S3 [fraı] v past tense and past participle fried present participle frying third person singular fries [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: frire, from Latin frigere] 1.) [I and T] to cook something in hot fat or oil, or to be cooked in… … Dictionary of contemporary English
small fry — Synonyms and related words: a nobody, a nothing, babyhood, bantam, banty, boyhood, button, childkind, children, chit, cipher, common man, diminutive, dinky, dummy, featherweight, figurehead, fingerling, girlhood, insignificancy, insignificant,… … Moby Thesaurus
small — adj., n., & adv. adj. 1 not large or big. 2 slender; thin. 3 not great in importance, amount, number, strength, or power. 4 not much; trifling (a small token; paid small attention). 5 insignificant; unimportant (a small matter; from small… … Useful english dictionary
small — adj 1. little, tiny, teeny, pint sized; wee, mini, short, Inf. sawed off, snub; Inf. teeny weeny, Inf. itty bitty, Inf. itsy bitsy, Inf. itty, Inf. eensy ween sy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, dwarf, Inf. peewee; baby, bantam,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
fry — fry1 [frī] vt., vi. fried, frying [ME frien < OFr frire < L frigere, to fry < IE base * bher , to bake, roast > Pers birištan, to fry] 1. to cook or be cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in hot fat or oil 2.… … English World dictionary
small fries — plural of small fry but not commonly in use; more likely to mean small French fried potatoes … Dictionary of ichthyology
