small potato
nounDefinition of small potato
: one that is of trivial importance or worth
—usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction
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Of course, the 10,000 people who attend Newport annually must seem like small potatoes to a Michael Lang. — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, "What Woodstock could learn from the Newport Folk Festival," 29 July 2019 Ruple developed a lump the size of a small potato on his breast. — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, "John Carroll’s Chris Wenzler and Baldwin Wallace’s Kevin Ruple: A story of small-college sports, big hearts and cancer — Terry Pluto," 16 June 2019 The small potatoes have names such as AmaRosa, Purple Passion, Bintje, Ruby Crescent and Russian Banana. — John Sowell, idahostatesman, "You know the russet, Idaho’s Goliath potato. Meet its colorful David challengers. | Idaho Statesman," 31 Mar. 2018 This method works well with nearly all small potatoes — from little red potatoes to fingerlings. — Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, "How to grill steak to perfection — it's all about controlling the heat," 5 June 2018 My only complaints about the Terrain are small potatoes. — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, "Review: GMC Terrain gives you the ride you want—at a price," 23 Dec. 2018 Of course, that write-down is small potatoes compared with what happened nearly 16 years ago. — Charley Grant, WSJ, "Seems Like Old Times at Verizon," 11 Dec. 2018 But these titans of industry are still small potatoes in the e-cigarette world, with their vapes consistently losing out to new-kid-on-the-block, Juul. — Rachel Becker, The Verge, "Juul’s nicotine salts are dominating the market — and other companies want in," 21 Nov. 2018 Those numbers make any emergency funding for disaster relief or military stimulus look like small potatoes. — Emily Stewart, Vox, "Trump says there’s another tax cut on the way. We have no idea what he’s talking about.," 21 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'small potato.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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