small potatoes
Example Sentences
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Vanguard Total International Stock had the largest inflows for foreign funds, but at $4.5 billion, it’s small potatoes compared with Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
Too many small potatoes were swept up in the indictment.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
The talk of pandas, then, might seem like small potatoes.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
“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
She shifted a can of pears, a shriveled carrot, and two small potatoes to one side.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
