small-fry

Seasoned recordists may balk at its midrange converters or bristle at the notion of sacrificing line outputs for headphones, but engineering is little more than problem-solving and the shortcomings of the 18i20 are small fry.

Most of these planets, the magazine noted, were “small fry.”

A 1951 article in Science News Letter declared that “thousands of planets are known to circle our sun,” although most are “small fry.”

And yes, someone has already called Spencer a “Small Fry,” har har.

Big Perm worries that the lack of policing the “small fry” will lead to more crimes by “big fry.”

One cannot have an ecosystem with only “small fry” facing giants.

In the White House pecking order, Jones was a small fry, who wasn't exactly sitting in on cabinet meetings.

They are the small fry who follow in the wake of the big eaters in the ferocious hunts of the rivers.

The noise attracts the large fish, who think there is a shoal of the small fry about, and they jump at the bait and are caught.

Finally, the small fry of the Third Estate will be exiled to at least a hundred leagues from Paris.

You can imagine the wild joy of the small fry, who had, of course, never met Whistler.

A great family might have lived down a match of this sort, (I dont want to hurt your feelings,) but were such very small fry.