chump change

Example Sentences

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Of course, $75 million is chump change for Amazon, which makes hundreds of billion dollars in revenue a year from both its online sales and Amazon Web Services cloud unit.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

“People were mortified, and continue to be mortified, by the fact that we have this situation that’s unfolding, this new fire paradigm, and the forest service’s just getting chump change to address it,” he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2023

This isn’t chump change, Jeffrey Brown of Redmond indicated.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

With inflation and the rising cost of goods — $7 for a dozen eggs on average, if you can find them at all — losing a fridge full of food isn’t chump change.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

I wish one fifty was chump change for me.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas