small-fry
Example Sentences
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This is targeting high-level, big impact threats rather than small fry: trying to minimise the very real possibility of a successful cyber-attack knocking out critical infrastructure and/or causing damage on a national scale, including economically.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Such small fry could easily flail or fail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Several clients raised the question of whether this bet was being redefined to benefit “whales,” or big-money gamblers, at the expense of the small fry.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026
Some passages one might almost call psychedelic if that word didn’t seem inappropriate to small fry.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024
In those bygone days a bishop visited the Milagro parish about once every five years, and when the bishop came he confirmed all the small fry in town.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
