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View definitions for small-fry

small-fry

adjective as in small-time

noun as in nonentity

Strongest match

Weak match

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Big money for a side operating on frees and non-contracts not so long ago, but small fry when it comes to pushing for the Premier League.

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"There's big and serious history here, wars which changed the course of history on a continent. Put it against that, it's small fry," Mr Hare remarked.

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Some passages one might almost call psychedelic if that word didn’t seem inappropriate to small fry.

All season long, starting with an opening road loss to Anaheim and most recently last month in a 4-0 loss at San Jose, the Kraken have let the small fry push them around.

The emphasis was not on eliminating war and injustice but on features that might help us cosmic small fry to navigate the vicissitudes of “life.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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