English Explanatory Dictionary

small potatoes

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

small potatoes

Etymology

A specialization of a sense of potato meaning a thing of little value, and a comment on the low value of a small potato in particular, appearing in its modern form in North America in the mid-19th century (see 1855 quotation).

Synonyms

peanuts small beer small fry nobody no one

Antonyms

some pumpkins
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