Definition of small potatoes

small potatoes    

noun - plural

• something insignificant.

  You've been spending too much on that account. It's small potatoes.

  • See more words with the same meaning: unimportant, useless.

  Last edited on Oct 25 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'unimportant, useless':
BFD	Definitions include: acronym of "big fucking deal."
piss-ant	Definitions include: a person who is inconsequential, irrelevant, small, unimportant, or worthless.
as much use as a chocolate teapot	Definitions include: useless.
no biggie	Definitions include: an unimportant thing.
sh*t	Definitions include: Most uses of "shit" also work with "crap", except where noted below.
Mickey Mouse	Definitions include: ghetto
chicken-sh*t	Definitions include: feeble.
two-bit	Definitions include: insignificant.
as much use as a handbrake on a canoe	Definitions include: useless.
nothingburger	Definitions include: something that could be interpreted as important, when in fact it is not.
pap	Definitions include: a person who isn't liked in general.
as much use as a chocolate fireguard	Definitions include: useless.
drop in the bucket	Definitions include: something with little effect because - compared to everything else - it's very small.
fluff	Definitions include: to have sex.
big deal	Definitions include: sarcastic interjection to espouse one's belief that the subject isn't a big deal.
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Other terms relating to 'potato':
big potato	Definitions include: a person very high up in an industry's hierarchy.
California potato chip	Definitions include: dried sperm
couch potato	Definitions include: a lazy person, especially someone who spends a extended period of time on a couch while watching television.
dig (one's) potatoes	Definitions include: to try to swoop on somebody's lover.
hot potato	Definitions include: something no one wants to handle or accept responsibility for.
meat-n-potatoes	Definitions include: penis
potato	Definitions include: A word women use around boys or children for use of the word "period"
potatoes	Definitions include: money.
potato quality	Definitions include: of a photo, poor quality.
strain the potatoes	Definitions include: to urinate.
Other terms relating to 'small':
d*ck smalls	Definitions include: a small penis.
it's a small world.	Definitions include: said when you see someone in an unexpected place.
small beer	Definitions include: a trifling matter.
small-cap	Definitions include: From Wall Street, as in small-capitalization.
small fry	Definitions include: something or someone unimportant.
small kine	Definitions include: a little bit; not very much.
small patato	Definitions include: small figure in chinese
small print, the	Definitions include: the contract involved in an agreement.
small talk	Definitions include: discussion about non-sensitive topics in a social setting.
SOHO	Definitions include: acronym for "small office / home office".
sufficiently small	Definitions include: used for commentary on something that has been overstated.
suitably small	Definitions include: used for commentary on something that has been overstated.

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