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penny-ante
adjective
petty, insignificant US, 1935
From a poker game with a one-cent “ante” or buy-in, an insignificant stake.- Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I’ll never know. — It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946
- Her father was a penny-ante politician on the South Side[.] — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 125, 1958
- “Anything you make teaching our guests is yours, and I can promise you it won’t be penny ante.” — Sam Snead, The Education of a Golfer, p. 11, 1962
- Killing machines like Quick Cicero were inexpendable; not so pennyante players like Frank Stutz. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 98, 1990
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