| 单词 | small potatoes |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall potatoes a. As the type of something insignificant or of little value. Now esp. in small potatoes (originally U.S.) : designating or denoting a person or thing considered petty, unimportant, insignificant, or worthless; occasionally also in singular.Formerly also in small potatoes and few in the hill and variants (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth ivy-leafc1000 needle?c1225 sloec1250 peasea1275 strawc1290 bean1297 nutc1300 buttonc1330 leekc1330 trifle1375 cress1377 goose-wing1377 sop1377 niflec1395 vetcha1400 a pin's head (also point)c1450 trump1513 plack1530 toy1530 blue point1532 grey groat1546 cherry-stone1607 jiggalorum1613 candle-enda1625 peppercorn1638 sponge1671 sneeshing1686 snottera1689 catchpenny1705 potato1757 snuff1809 pinhead1828 traneen1837 a hill of beans1863 gubbins1918 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance > collectively littleOE frya1577 small fry1652 potato1757 small beer1777 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii I don't value Monsieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Let. 17 July (1956) I. 334 The London literati appear to me to be very much like little potatoes, that is no great things. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII iv. 67 Who knew this life was not worth a potato. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas ii. 25 This is what I call small potatoes and few of a hill. 1846 N.Y. Herald 13 Dec. Small potato politicians and pettifogging lawyers. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. iii. 63 It's small potatoes for a man-of-war to be hunting poor game, like us. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 647/1 The Fourth Estate..thinks no small potatoes of itself. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) II. vii. 787 If some first-class excitement doesn't come along every day, you pull a face as though you were saying: ‘H'm, small potatoes and few in the hill!’ 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key iv. 49 ‘Morry Sacks is going to tell the law we found a million dollars on the beach?’ ‘No! Morry is too small potatoes.’ 1995 Q June 186/1 The things you have to tell them to get a council tax rebate these days. Small potatoes, of course, compared to the interrogation on this page. < as lemmas |
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