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idiombe small beer (to/for sb)to seem unimportant to someone, usually because they have other more important, impressive, or profitable things to deal with:Even with £10,000 to invest you are still small beer for most stockbrokers, who usually require a minimum portfolio of £100,000.Doing up an eighteenth-century townhouse is small beer compared with the Stewarts' next project, a ruined castle on the Scottish coast.
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