small beer

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Something that is of relatively little importance

The income from gold plated widgets is small beer compared to the income from the standard ones.

Beer with a low alcoholic content
{i} weak beer; beer of low quality; something worthless
triviality: something of small importance
If you say that something is small beer, you mean that it is unimportant in comparison with something else. Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed. = peanuts
smallbeer
{n} a weak beer
small beer
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