1 an amount of money that is so small in comparison with other amounts that it is unimportant and can be ignored:
Any possible and arguable saving of accidents and fatalities by the wearing of seatbelts would be mere chickenfeed.
This is chickenfeed, a tiny amount of money.
By the time they have grown and become medium ports, the £500,000 will have become chickenfeed.
He described the proposal in various splendid ways, including calling it chickenfeed.
If they are not advised to keep silent, they will have a field day with their memoirs, which would make recent disclosures look like chickenfeed.
It would probably make one million unemployed look like chickenfeed.
That may sound quite a lot of money, but it is chickenfeed compared with the benefits that come from an effective population policy.
There is the £2, 000 million that goes in tax relief for mortgage payments, beside which £46½ million is chickenfeed.
