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
Chloe at the time, still finishing her A-levels, thought was she too small-fry to ever be a target.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025
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
