small potatoes
Example Sentences
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The government’s stakes in other companies are relatively small potatoes and overwhelmingly concentrated in critical minerals companies.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
At the end of the day, some might see all these matters I’ve raised as small potatoes.
From Slate • May 22, 2025
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 it must be the god of small potatoes.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
