rinky-dink

Over the next 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival would change from a rinky-dink, small-time gathering into a major player in the festival circuit, on par with revered institutions like the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival.

Kirk indeed turned Turning Point USA from a rinky-dink right-wing nonprofit founded before he was 20 into a gargantuan policy-altering machine, famous for raking in oodles of capital from eager right-wing donors.

He had the hair and the rinky-dink scandals and that one cameo in Home Alone 2.

They were rewarded with three works by Puccini, alongside Henry Mancini's rinky-dink Pink Panther theme, and the traditional programme of sea shanties and patriotic songs like Jerusalem and Rule, Britannia!

They had me in the SS Mooch, which was a rinky-dink rowboat.