small potatoes

Significado (Inglês)

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

Sinônimos

import

importance

momentousness

significance

small fry

value

worth

weight

snowball effect

Etimologia (Inglês)

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).