drop in the bucket

On the balance sheets of multibillion-dollar companies, the cost of private aviation is a drop in the bucket of jet fuel.

While substantial, the tariffs amount to just a drop in the bucket of government funding, accounting for 3.5% of revenue, up from 1.6% last August, says Gimbel.

But wildfire experts say that’s just a drop in the bucket.

The head of the UN's World Food Programme warned on Sunday that the aid was only a "drop in the bucket" of what was needed in the territory to reverse the catastrophic levels of hunger, amid significant shortages of basic foods and skyrocketing prices.

It’s a highly symbolic event, with a number of very rich attendees, for whom an expensive package of photos is a drop in the bucket coming on top of years of educational investment.