chicken feed
Hardly worth mentioning
Chicken feed is grain or other food given to chickens, but in figurative use it means a trivially small amount of money.
The expression works because chicken feed is cheap and consists of tiny pieces.
They offered me a raise but it was chicken feed compared to what I could make elsewhere.
Something dismissed as chicken feed is being characterized as insignificant or not worth serious consideration.
Cereal plant's harvest unit
- cornCereal grown on cobs
- pelletsSmall compressed spheres
- mashCrushed soft mixture
- crumbleFragment gradually
scratch · grit · oyster shell · mealworms · kitchen scraps · fodder · wheat · barley
Contemptibly meager
- meagerDeficient in quantity
- negligibleToo small to consider
- triflingOf no real importance
- nominalIn designation only
petty cash · pocket money · small change · loose change · chump change · peanuts · pittance · spending money
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
crumble · scratch · grit · oyster shell · mealworms · kitchen scraps · fodder · wheat · barley · oats
paltry
Contemptibly meager
- meagerDeficient in quantity
- negligibleToo small to consider
- triflingOf no real importance
nominal · petty cash · pocket money · small change · loose change · chump change · peanuts · pittance · spending money · pin money
- animal feedingfeeder, food bowl, food bowls, trough, troughs
- bird expressionsearly bird, birdbrain, bird brain, lovebirds, jailbird
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- farm suppliesfertilizer, seeds, insecticides, farm tools, manure
- Insignificant thingstrivial, minor, small, tiny, negligible
- worthless thingsnot worth a dime, not worth a hill of beans, dime a dozen, two-bit, good for nothing
chicken feedfortune
Wealth or destiny
king's ransom · big bucks · megabucks · small fortune · mint