peanuts

See also Peanuts

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Noun

peanuts

1. Plural form of peanut
2. A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary).

   It's a fun job, but it pays peanuts.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) nipples; the projections of mammary glands on female mammals

Translations

insignificant amount of money

• Finnish: suolarahat (fi) pl
• German: für einen Apfel und ein Ei

• Russian: гроши (ru) (groší) m pl, копейки (ru) (kopéjki) f pl

See also

• bananas analogy to monkey instead of elephant
• beans (not worth a hill of beans)
• goober peas