small potatoes
Example Sentences
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That might sound like small potatoes, but it really is big bucks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
In some ways, it’s small potatoes compared to what’s happening now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Too many small potatoes were swept up in the indictment.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
“It is not small potatoes, it is not this small, incremental change in the way that the world works,” he said, stabbing the tip of his pencil into his notebook.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023
These women squatting, knees wide apart in their long wrapped skirts, throwing handfuls of peppers and small potatoes into hissing pans over cookfires?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
