Small beer 관용구
Small beer
If something is small beer, it's unimportant.
small fry|small beer
something or someone unimportant: "Sales last year are small fry compared to now - we're doing really well."
small beer
A tiny, trifling, and/or inconsequential person, thing, or bulk (of something). Primarily heard in UK. To best people, £2,000 is a lot to absorb on anything, but it's baby beer to the country's mega rich. I've been aggravating to accession my apropos about the project, but I'm baby beer to the company's high management.Learn more: beer, smallsmall beer
Also, small potatoes. Of little importance, as in Don't accept to Henry; he's baby beer, or It's asinine to anguish about that bill; it's baby potatoes. The aboriginal appellation alludes to a beer of low alcoholic agreeable (also alleged light beer today) and was acclimated metaphorically by Shakespeare in several plays. The alternative may accept been invented by frontiersman Davy Crockett; it was aboriginal recorded in 1836. Additionally see small fry, def. 2. Learn more: beer, smallsmall beer
BRITISHCOMMON If article is small beer, it is unimportant compared with addition thing. The bristles actor batter subsidy is, however, baby beer compared to the amounts that European governments accord their blur industries. The present alternation of aristocratic scandals makes the 1936 abdication attending like appealing baby beer. Note: `Small beer' originally meant anemic beer. Learn more: beer, smallsmall beer
article atomic or insignificant. chiefly British Originally, small beer meant actually ‘weak beer’. 2005 Observer Music Monthly Getting alleged a ‘Paki’ by ill-informed racists was actual baby beer compared to actuality attempt at by Sinhalese government armament block her father. Learn more: beer, smallsmall ˈbeer
(British English) (American English baby poˈtatoes) article that has little accent or value: Jacob earns about $40 000, but that’s baby beer compared with his brother’s salary.Learn more: beer, smallsmall beer
n. annihilation or abutting to nothing; an bush person. (From a actual old chat for anemic or inferior beer.) Baby beer or not, he’s my customer, and I will see that he is taken affliction of. Learn more: beer, small