small beer
Nothing worth mentioning
Small beer is beer with low alcohol content, historically the everyday drink when water was unsafe.
The figurative sense dominates now: something trivial or unimportant.
Local politics is small beer compared to what's happening nationally.
To think small beer of someone is to hold them in low regard.
insignificance
Of no real importance
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- minorScale with lowered third
- unimportantLacking significance or weight
- negligibleToo small to consider
petty · trivial · paltry · frivolous · insubstantial · marginal · picayune · nugatory
trifling
Of no real importance
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- minorScale with lowered third
- unimportantLacking significance or weight
negligible · petty · trivial · paltry · frivolous · insubstantial · marginal · picayune · nugatory · footling
ale
Warm-fermented malt drink
- breweryBeer manufacturing facility
- pubLicensed drinking establishment
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
hops · barley · malt · yeast · pint · draught · cask · keg · tavern · session
- Insignificant thingstrivial, minor, tiny, negligible, petty
- historic foodssyllabub, pottage, mead, hardtack, gruel
- old drinksmead, ale, claret, sack, wassail
- Victorian foodsplum pudding, treacle, mock turtle soup, turtle soup, gruel
- light drinkslight lager, radler, shandy, spritzer, wine spritzer
- small frypipsqueak, little guy, nobody, nonentity, cipher