1 an amount of money that is so small in comparison with other amounts that it is unimportant and can be ignored:
Even that is chickenfeed in terms of the £21 billion that it costs to keep people out of work.
Therefore, the money from tourism is by no means chickenfeed.
Does he not, therefore, agree that £118 million is chickenfeed and will not meet the circumstances?
If we could provide free travel at all times for every old age pensioner at £230 million, that would be chickenfeed for such an achievement.
A total of £1·5 million at 1984 prices—most of the calculations were put together in 1984 — is chickenfeed to big business.
Those figures will be regarded as chickenfeed in the future.
It is because we are not dealing with chickenfeed but with £613 million in taxation.
There is the £2, 000 million that goes in tax relief for mortgage payments, beside which £46½ million is chickenfeed.
