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Small fry

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One or more small or immature fish.
  2. 2
    a young person of either sex wordnet
  3. 3
    One or more children. informal

    "After his death in 1950, his widow and a board of trustees who were left with responsibility of running the cranberry plant decided to continue the miniature railway's services to the "small fry", and it opened as usual on December 6, 1951."

  4. 4
    someone who is small and insignificant wordnet
  5. 5
    One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. idiomatic

    "The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was a small fry compared to his boss."

Etymology

From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.

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