small-fry
Example Sentences
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Whether or not that concentration concerns you, owning the entire market, maybe even with an extra nod toward its overlooked small-fry, could be a profitable decision.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 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
In the Road in front of the house had congregated the entire school of small-fry, drawn by the mother lode, but too well trained to think of making any kind of interruption to the gathering.
From The Road to Providence by Daviess, Maria Thompson
