small fry

See also: small-fry

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Noun

small fry (plural small fry or small fries)

One or more small or immature fish.
(informal) One or more children.
(idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was small fry compared to his boss.

These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.

Synonyms

small potatoes

Translations

one or more small fish

Finnish: pikkukala

Russian: малёк (ru) m (maljók), мелюзга́ (ru) f (meljuzgá), ме́лкая рыбёшка f (mélkaja rybjóška), ры́бка (ru) f (rýbka)

one or more children

Finnish: pikkuväki

Russian: детвора́ (ru) f (detvorá) (collective, grammatically singular), мелюзга́ (ru) f (meljuzgá) (jocularly or pejoratively), ме́лочь (ru) f (méločʹ) (jocularly, also: "ме́лочь пуза́тая"), ребяти́шки (ru) pl (rebjatíški)

things or people of little importance

Dutch: klein bier (nl) n
Faroese: æti

Finnish: pikkutekijä (person), pikkujuttu (thing)
French: menu fretin m

German: kleine Fische m pl
Russian: ме́лочь (ru) f (méločʹ), ме́лкая со́шка f (mélkaja sóška) (a person), ме́лкая рыбёшка f (mélkaja rybjóška) (a person)
Spanish: Don Nadie

References

"small fry" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

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