trifling matter
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"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023
For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021
Toni knew that for a black girl to love herself was no trifling matter.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
This is a very trifling matter in comparison with the value and originality of the principles themselves.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
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