small potatoes

Example Sentences

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That’s not small potatoes considering “these are the three largest economies in the world and this scenario would have material ramifications for the global economy,” the strategists write.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Too many small potatoes were swept up in the indictment.

From Salon • May 15, 2024

“It is not small potatoes, it is not this small, incremental change in the way that the world works,” he said, stabbing the tip of his pencil into his notebook.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 25, 2023

I think they thought they were making a point that the investigation is just small potatoes and it’s not going to go anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2023

Yet it is also true that the very same troubles that loom catastrophically large one day can seem like small potatoes the next, particularly if even worse troubles have popped up to take their place.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood