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
Junior oarsmen obtain far better instruction in the ranks of the crack clubs than they could hope to find in the small-fry institutions, and they have found this out.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
