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
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
Any offerings they could muster would be small potatoes compared with a private plane to Indonesia.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2023
“That’s just small potatoes, Mama. Let’s pray for something big,” Mary Anne deadpanned.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
