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Small potatoes

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. idiomatic, plural, plural-only

    "My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers."

Etymology

A specialization of a sense of potato meaning a thing of little value, and a comment on the low value of a small potato in particular, appearing in its modern form in North America in the mid-19th century (see 1855 quotation).

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