trifling matter
Example Sentences
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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
Those late starts were no trifling matter; last season, they often featured LeBron James’s Los Angeles Lakers and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
The train was behind time,—a trifling matter in itself, but, in our situation, each minute might turn the scale between death and life.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
