[Idiom] Small potatoes

[Olenek]

Hi everybody,

Idioms Small potatoes and Small fry describe persons or things regarded as unimportant.

(Small fry can also refer to children: Peter's taking the small fry to the zoo.)

Do you use/ heard other idioms with the sense "unimportant person"?

Many Thanks for all your answers! :up:

 

[freezeframe]

(Small fry can also refer to children: Peter's taking the small fry to the zoo.)

Where?

 

[Olenek]

Where?

small fry - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

 

[SanMar]

Where?

Small fry refers to anyone small in stature, so I think this is the reason it is sometimes extended to children. I wouldn't say it's popular, at least I don't hear it used a lot.

example:
(site to teach skating to young children)

http://www.smallfryskating.com/

Not a teacher.

 

[Tdol]

I don't hear it used for children much at all either. There's also small beer.

 

[BobK]

And the rather confrontational 'I was talking to the organ-grinder, not the monkey' (a reference to Organ grinder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - some of them used to have a monkey dancing as part of the show).

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