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
In the lucrative world of college athletics, that sum is considered chump change.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023
“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
Babysitting would barely add chump change to my near-zero balance.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
