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': | |
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| Definitions include: useless. | |
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| Definitions include: ghetto | |
| Definitions include: a big deal. | |
| Definitions include: useless. | |
| Definitions include: sarcastic interjection to espouse one's belief that the subject isn't a big deal. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is inconsequential, irrelevant, small, unimportant, or worthless. | |
| Definitions include: useless. | |
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| Definitions include: used for commentary on something that has been overstated. | |
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