chicken feed

chicken feed

A very paltry or minuscule amount of money; the absolute minimum amount. Suzy's brother has a connection in the stadium, so we got these tickets for chicken feed! I had a few jobs during college working for chicken feed, but it was the only work I could get that fit in with my studies.
See also: chicken, feed
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

chicken feed

Fig. a small amount of anything, especially of money. (See also for chicken feed. Compare this with for peanuts.) Of course I can afford $800. That's just chicken feed. It may be chicken feed to you, but that's a month's rent to me.
See also: chicken, feed
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

chicken feed

Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour-that's chicken feed. This expression alludes to the fact that chickens can be fed corn and wheat grains too small for other uses. [Slang; early 1800s]
See also: chicken, feed
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

chicken feed

INFORMAL
1. If an amount, usually of money, is chicken feed, it is very small, especially compared with another amount. The £70,000-a-year backing received from sponsors is chicken feed compared to the £20m budgets available to some of his rivals.
2. If someone or something is chicken feed, they are insignificant, especially compared with another person or thing. There's Masters, too. He's the biggest threat. We're just chicken feed.
See also: chicken, feed
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

chicken feed

a paltry sum of money. informal
See also: chicken, feed
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ˈchicken feed

(informal) a small and unimportant amount of money: My salary is chicken feed compared with hers.
See also: chicken, feed
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

chicken feed

n. a small amount of money. (see also peanuts.) It may be chicken feed to you, but that’s a month’s rent to me.
See also: chicken, feed
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • birdseed
  • for chicken feed
  • for peanuts
  • peanut
  • at the very least
  • pay peanuts
  • at the least
  • as many as
  • as many as...
  • if that
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