trifling matter
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"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023
For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021
Toni knew that for a black girl to love herself was no trifling matter.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
Money has to be part of the calculus now because college debt in the United States is no trifling matter.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2018
What a trifling matter will pass for genuine wit among friends who are all in a good humor, and ready to be pleased with every honest attempt at innocent fun!
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
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