small potatoes
Hardly worth mentioning
Small potatoes describes something insignificant or trivial—not worth serious attention.
The phrase compares whatever's being dismissed to undersized tubers barely worth harvesting: That contract is small potatoes compared to what we're negotiating now.
Often paired with small: The fine was small potatoes to a company that size.
Of no real importance
- pettyOf little importance
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- paltryContemptibly meager
- trivialLacking significance or weight
unimportant · negligible · minor · piddling · picayune · nugatory · footling · fiddling
Not noticed or considered
- dismissedReleased from duty
- underestimatedMisjudged as inferior
- undervaluedRated below true worth
- disregardedNot given consideration
ignored · written off · brushed aside · shrugged off · beneath notice · not worth mentioning · who cares · big deal
trifling
Of no real importance
- pettyOf little importance
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- paltryContemptibly meager
trivial · unimportant · negligible · minor · piddling · picayune · nugatory · footling · fiddling · no big deal
overlooked
Not noticed or considered
- dismissedReleased from duty
- underestimatedMisjudged as inferior
- undervaluedRated below true worth
disregarded · ignored · written off · brushed aside · shrugged off · beneath notice · not worth mentioning · who cares · big deal · so what
- food idiomspiece of cake, bread winner, low-hanging fruit, cool as a cucumber, bad egg
- Insignificant thingstrivial, minor, tiny, negligible, petty
- worthless thingsnot worth a dime, not worth a hill of beans, dime a dozen, two-bit, good for nothing
- nonproblemsnonissues, trifles, trivia, molehills, false alarms
- small frypipsqueak, little guy, nobody, nonentity, cipher
- triflestrifle, trivia, bagatelle, minutiae, nothing
small potatoesbig deal
Important matter or occurrence
major · important · significant · consequential · momentous
small potatoesmassive
Extremely large and heavy
enormous · whale · heavy hitter · heavyweight · big fish
small, smaller, smallest, potatoes, smallness, smallish, smalls, smalltime