small beer
Example Sentences
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You can argue the plan is small beer relative to the scale of Germany’s challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
"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.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
At the blog Why Evolution is True, biostatistician Gregory Mayer described Farina and Gibbon's findings as "small beer."
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2022
In the midst of the multiple crises facing American higher education, tweaking tenure review and campus public relations may sound like small beer.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
I avoid looking at the small beer belly that’s grown on him, though I’m aware of it, of the changes in his body, as he must be of mine.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
