small-fry
Example Sentences
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Wait, a $10 billion bet gone bad plus some small-fry investor leverage kills $500 billion in crypto value?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
But those moves look like small-fry when held against the scale and depth of financial difficulties many respondents within their own survey now say they are facing.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2022
If everything sticks, this civic scandal could make the 2010 Bell fiasco — which saw four councilmembers, two city administrators, and the mayor convicted on corruption charges — look as small-fry as high school ASB.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022
From small-fry investors to members of Congress, critics paint short sellers as merchants of pain.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021
And then there was a regular retinue of the "small-fry property" bringing up the rear, with curious faces, and making the jargon more confounding with the music of their voices.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
