a dime's worth »
An insignificant amount.
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all in a day's work »
A nonchalant dismissal of a significant accomplishment.
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chicken feed »
A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
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chopped liver »
A person or object which is not worthy of being noticed; someone or something insignificant.
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chump change »
A sum of money considered to be insignificant.
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dicky-bird »
A insignificant sound or thing.
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double-edged sword »
A benefit that is also a liability, or that carries some significant but non-obvious cost or risk.
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flash in the pan »
A career notable for early success not followed by significant accomplishment.
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go from zero to hero »
To change from negative outcome to positive outcome. To improve one's fortunes significantly.
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greatest thing since sliced bread »
A relatively recent invention likely to significantly improve people's lives.
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guilt trip »
A feeling of shame or embarrassment, especially if self-indulgent, unwarranted, exaggerated or felt over a significant period of time.
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hold one's liquor »
To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol.
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legwork »
Work, especially research or preparation, that involves significant walking, travel, or similar effort.
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on the whole »
For the most part; apart from some insignificant details.
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out of one's league »
In a situation in which one is mismatched with one or more others, whose accomplishments, preparedness, or other characteristics are on a significantly higher or lower level than one's own.
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pre-war »
Describing the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.
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rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic »
To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem.
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round off »
To change a number into an approximation having fewer significant digits.
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small change »
A minor or insignificant amount of money.
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take to the cleaners »
To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through gambling, unfavorable investing, fraud, litigation, etc.
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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get »
(vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, ISBN 9780135375228:Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, ISBN 9781582430454, p. 93:Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, ISBN 9781599213590, p. 63:"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."
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the straw that broke the camel's back »
A small and seemingly insignificant addition to a burden that renders it too much to bear; the small thing which causes failure, or causes inability or unwillingness to endure any more of something.
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three skips of a louse »
Said about some trifling or insignificant matter.
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tomato tomato »
Uses insignificant pronunciation difference to dismiss a correction to one's adherence to an alternative standard.
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two-bit »
Insignificant or worthless.
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