small fry
Meaning
- One or more small or immature fish.
- (informal) One or more children.
- (idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
Synonyms
small fish
small insect
small child
ordinary soldiers
unimportant people
Translations
blanchaille
kleiner Fisch
غُلام رضِيع صغِير صبِيّ
nenEtymology
From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.
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