small potatoes

== English == === Etymology === A specialization of a sense of potato meaning a thing of little value, and a comment on the low value of a small potato in particular, appearing in its modern form in North America in the mid-19th century (see 1855 quotation). === Pronunciation === === Noun === small potatoes pl (plural only) (idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. ==== Synonyms ==== peanuts (usually of money), small beer, small fry, nobody, no one ==== Antonyms ==== some pumpkins ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === John Russell Bartlett (1877), “small potatoes”, in Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC. James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Potato”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1185, column 2.