0 something that does not seem important when compared to something else:
1 infml someone or something that is unimportant:
Besides, he's pursuing a noble calling: happiness is small potatoes by comparison.
I do not think there is any virtue in excluding the small potatoes.
Restrictions are in force regarding the sale of small potatoes of the old crop.
It so happens that there are parts of the country which produce small potatoes.
Every farmer will take up this large block of small potatoes which are now to be put up for consumption; but there has always been such a block.
Fruits look much like small potatoes and are borne in clusters similar to grapes.
The incident which was also small potatoes, but very memorable personified the conflict between craft and industrial organizing.
These small potatoes are spread closely on flat ground, and allowed to freeze with low night temperatures, for approximately three nights.
