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small beer
noun as in weak beer
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He said it would cost "an additional £15m in funding - 'small beer' in funding terms - to rectify".
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“On the other hand, we may not need to do as much small beer.”
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"But it's small beer in terms of the overall value of the project they are building and the profit that they will take out of that," he added.
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The soju will be served with shot glasses, while the beer is often served with small beer glasses.
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But Close didn’t drink much at the time and was mocked by his peers for ordering only small beers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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