small fry

English

Noun

small fry (plural small fry)

1. One or more small or immature fish.
2. (informal) One or more children.
3. (idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

   The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was small fry compared to his boss.

   These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.

Translations

one or more small fish

• Finnish: pikkukala (fi)

• Russian: малёк (ru) (maljók) m, мелюзга (ru) (meljuzgá) f, мелкая рыбёшка (mélkaja rybjóška) f

one or more children

• Finnish: pikkuväki (fi)

• Russian: детвора (ru) (detvorá) f (collective, grammatically singular), мелюзга (ru) (meljuzgá) f (jocularly or pejoratively), мелочь (ru) (méločʹ) f (jocularly, also: "ме́лочь пуза́тая")

things or people of little importance

• Finnish: pikkutekijä (fi) (person), pikkujuttu (fi) (thing)
• French: menu fretin (fr) m

• Russian: мелочь (ru) (méločʹ) f, мелкая сошка (ru) (mélkaja sóška) f (a person), мелкая рыбёшка (mélkaja rybjóška) f (a person)

Synonyms

• small potatoes

References

• "small fry" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.