Meaning of small fry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One or more small or immature fish.
2. One or more children.
   informal
3. One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“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.”

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

“These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.”

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