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peanuts
noun
a very small sum of money US, 1934- I’d worked for those people for peanuts, and I’d have stolen from myself quicker than I would have from them. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 121, 1953
- Unlike the big-con operator, whose elaborate scene-setting may involve as much as a hundred thousand dollars, the short-con grifter can run on peanuts. — Jim Thompson, The Grifers, p. 22, 1963
- Real estate was going for peanuts in those days. That’s the only way to describe it. Peanuts. — Edward Lin, Big Julie of Vegas, p. 68, 1974
- “ Mom says $800 a month. Can you handle that, Nick?” “Peanuts, Frank.” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 466, 1993
- [I]t pays relative peanuts. — Radio Times, p. 34, 30 March 2002
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