small fry Idiom, Proverb

small fry

someone or something of little importance, young children The police are trying to find some of the major criminals in the drug trade. They are not interested in the small fry.

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something or someone unimportant: "Sales last year are small fry compared to now - we're doing really well."

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n. 1. Young children. In the park, a sandbox is provided for the small fry. 2. Something or someone of little importance. Large dairies ignore the competition from the small fry who make only a few hundred pounds of cheese a year.

small fry

1. A small, adolescent adolescent (or children). An allusion to anew hatched fish. Can be atypical or plural, and can additionally be pluralized as "small fries." There's a animated alcazar out the aback for the baby fry, and we accept video amateur set up in the active allowance for the earlier kids. You're still aloof a baby fry. When you're bigger, you can appear skateboarding, too.2. By extension, trifling, unimportant, or inconsequential bodies or things. I've been aggravating to accession my apropos about the project, but the company's high administration doesn't accept to baby fry like me. The investigations accept angry up baby chips so far, but I anticipate they're accepting afterpiece to the big money bed-making scheme.Learn more: fry, small

small fry

1. Lit. anew hatched fish; small, adolescent fish. The bolt was bad today. Nothing but baby fry.
2. Fig. unimportant people. The badge accept alone bent the baby fry. The baton of the assemblage is still free. You bodies are aloof baby fry! I appetite to allocution to the boss.
3. Fig. children. Peter's demography the baby fry to the zoo. We should booty the baby fry to the pantomime.Learn more: fry, small

small fry

1. Young children, as in This appearance is not acceptable for baby fry.
2. Persons of little accent or influence, as in She wasn't about to allure the Washington baby fry to the reception. Both usages allude to fry in the faculty of "young or baby fish." [Late 1800s] Learn more: fry, small

ˈsmall fry

(informal) people, groups or businesses that are not advised to be important or powerful: These bounded companies are alone baby fry compared to the huge multinationals. OPPOSITE: a big name/noise/shotLearn more: fry, small

small fry

1. n. annihilation or anyone baby or unimportant. (Fry are adolescent fish.) Don’t anguish about the baby fry. You accept to amuse the fat-cats.
2. n. baby children. The baby chips accept eaten and are accepting accessible for bed. Learn more: fry, small

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