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But of course we must not target officials as part of a strategy of catching the small fry and letting the big fish go free.
In other words, they were small fry who were obeying orders.
They are all schemes, costing only "small fry"—a quarter of a million pounds here or there.
Those are the small fry, but what about the big fish?
An operation employng 18,000 workers is not small fry.
It was only the small fry who were actually prosecuted and sentenced for breaking sanctions.
Those two were, in a sense, the small fry.
It will not enhance the court's legitimacy if the only people prosecuted are small fry and losers.
In the inflated terms of the day, £6 million spread over the next five years sounds fairly small fry.
If it does so, much of what we are talking about is small fry compared to what will in fact happen.
As with major crimes, the police nail the small fry but the bigger culprit continues to enjoy unscathed his large house and fat income.
He takes no cognisance of the pattern of fraudulent collecting and the convictions for collecting without permits, which unfortunately merely deal with the small fry.
This too is, in my view, another example of a big-country strategy: 'the small fry will just have to wait'.
The two men so far convicted were small fry.
Supposedly it is all minor —all small stuff, small fry; it will have no effect.
