These are chicken-feed rates by historical standards. ❋ Brett Arends (2010)
Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, whose chicken-feed samples tested positive for salmonella, has suggested the contamination might have come from a feed ingredient, bone meal, supplied by another company. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged the bank with covering up for outrageous bonuses given out at Merrill Lynch as the bank acquired the failed stockbrokerage, and now it was letting the bank off the hook with a chicken-feed fine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But, these luxuries were chicken-feed compared to the cash donations that the legislators got for their election campaigns. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Chief Executive Richard Bond said costs for chicken-feed grain are expected to rise as much as $300 million in the months ahead, and called the current market for beef "extremely difficult." ❋ Unknown (2007)
A CI can ell save money in the long run, by enabling those implanted to not require these services, and over a lifetime the paltry £26-30k they moan about it costs is chicken-feed to what it will actually save in the long term. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)
Even the amounts that have gone to the AU are not exactly chicken-feed: The European Commission has earmarked $384 million for the African Union since November 2004, and further funds have been provided by the individual EU states, for a total of more than $544 million. ❋ Richard (2007)
We had not noticed him especially -- no one took much notice of pretentious faddists -- but on going around to the back door for the chicken-feed one evening Bonico and I recognized the wheat-muncher bending over the salver eagerly picking up whatever bits and pieces he could find to eat. ❋ John Van Der Zee Sears (N/A)
Of course, youse wouldn't stand fer swipin 'chicken-feed like dem. ❋ Unknown (1928)
It is difficult to be romantic when you are laden with chicken-feed in an unwieldy iron pot, but he had resolved that this portion of the proceedings should be brief. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Hugh was obviously small money, and Allen had no time to waste on chicken-feed, but Winsor was a different matter. ❋ Percy Marks (1923)
'You've eaten so much supper you can't speak,' said Monkey, whose hand was in his coat-pocket for loose chicken-feed, as she called centimes. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
To him quarters are still chicken-feed and a half dollar is small change. ❋ John T. McCutcheon (1910)
He looked at the result as it lay in his grimy palm -- a moist little wad of bills and some chicken-feed change -- and spat disgustedly with a nasty oath. ❋ Unknown (1910)
In the very end of the long woodshed stood a chicken-feed bin. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
However, to do him justice, the transaction was more or less what he would have called "chicken-feed stuff." ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Secretary of the Treasury should pay the railroads seven hundred and fifty million dollars to keep 'em going, y'understand, not to mention such chicken-feed like three million dollars for this here Soldiers ' ❋ Montague Glass (1905)
The matter of her wanting "chicken-feed" now and then seemed to him too petty to be worthy of serious consideration. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
They fed him a little later on some chicken-feed that they found in ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
