small potatoes

Example Sentences

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Then, in the end, on the other side of this, you decide how you deal with the small potatoes.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

As for Walmart and Apple, yes, the former sells Apple products, but that distribution channel is small potatoes compared with Apple’s own digital and physical stores and mobile carriers.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 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 go straight to the market after the factory and buy what’s left, which is a ten-pound sack of small potatoes, some carrots, and four onions.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron