chump change

Example Sentences

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Shearer's £3.3m move from Southampton to Blackburn may seem like chump change now, but at the time it was a British record.

From BBC

That’s not chump change but it’s a rounding error relative to the infrastructure bill or how much we pay for police and prisons and all that stuff in the federal budget.

From Washington Post

"I am not taking no chump change to go to the UK, or the US, to fight against Savannah," Shields adds.

From BBC

Now, a new research paper based on observational data gives of the most precise estimations yet: 13.77 billion years old, give or take some chronological chump change of 40 million years.

From Salon

But these price increases are chump change compared to the amount of value Musk thinks Tesla owners will eventually get out of the technology, which he says could be “somewhere in excess of $100,000.”

From The Verge