So comparing doctors and section woodwinds, while fun, probably only yields small-potatoes results in comparison with the real question, whether universal coverage would meet with enough approval for the resulting political fairy dust to inoculate any resulting monopsony from negative externalities. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)
That might result in a wholly different problem, of course, as overzealous regulators tried to make their bonuses by going after small-potatoes corporate peccadilloes, rather than spotting potentially systemic crises. ❋ Jena McGregor (2011)
None of that old-fashioned, small-potatoes, storefront Devalier perfumery for her. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How had they gotten him to take what he must have figured at first blush was a small-potatoes case? ❋ Stephen Frey (2009)
Can someone tell me why, in the current economy, L.A. felt the need to hold this small-potatoes election in December, instead of last week? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Obama routinely raises more for his campaign alone on single days, and has done a great job pushing his small-potatoes supporters towards candidates that need help. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Going by that link, it sounds a lot more small-potatoes than I'd originally imagined. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Whereas it has the right, in the case of a small-potatoes mortgagee, it might not have the incentive. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had been to the county jail to meet with clients, but those were small-potatoes crimes: picketing outside a rally for a political candidate, flag burning, civil disobedience. ❋ Jodi Picoult (2008)
With apologies to Professor A, I'm sorry to say that when my wife has had occasion to visit Madison, she's found Lefty politics there grim, glum and small-potatoes compared to the real thing. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
It was a small-potatoes charge of failure to appear in court for a traffic violation, but any arrest warrant was good enough to bring him in. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2007)
But hey, compared to the thievery and excess Congress continues to fund in Iraq every single day, the Smithsonian needs are small-potatoes and unlike the war, they matter to America. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At first glance, it seems to be rather small-potatoes and too personal in nature to be a full-fledged news item. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Is the governorship of Massachusetts so small-potatoes that no one wants to do it for its own sake? ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
But this was a quirky, small-potatoes wager compared with the bets Gen Re is used to making on the likelihood of major earthquakes, killer hurricanes, and other shattering catastrophes, known as "mega-cats." ❋ Unknown (2004)
Some of the stuff waiting in the wings is relatively small-potatoes, anyway a review, a revised conference paper, a primarily descriptive essay for a library journal--and although I've been taking comfort in seeing that list grow, maybe some judicious pruning would be useful in directing attention to the three or four Important Pieces and not smothering them up with Everything Else. ❋ Flavia (2006)
Those [coins] are [small potatoes]; we're not going to use them [later on] ❋ Stanzz (2006)
From the Show "[Dead Like Me]":
MASON: Are you going to finish those [hashbrowns]?
ROXIE: Probably not
(takes them from her plate and eats them. Roxie stabs him with her
knife but he movs his hand just in time)
MASON: [Fucking bloody hell]
ROXIE: I'm outta here
MASON: Did you see that? I mean just because I wanted some of her hashbrowns
RUBE: I was there
MASON: I've never seen such violence over such small potatoes
RUBE: Oh, that was almost clever
MASON: Why was almost clever Rube?
RUBE: The thing about the hashbrowns being small potatoes
MASON: I don't get it. because hashbrowns are small potatoes
RUBE: Never mind ❋ Jason12 (2006)
After [a fuck] she enjoys [arsenic] in [small potatoes]. ❋ Hardly Q (2021)
me-now dog,why would you cause thisfracas with [your dad] over such small [potatoes]?
chris-nigga what potatoes got to do wit [dis]? ❋ Zxulu Tha Big Lip Bandit (2004)
From the Show "[Dead Like Me]":
MASON: Are you going to finish those [hashbrowns]?
ROXIE: Probably not
(takes them from her plate and eats them. Roxie stabs him with her
knife but he movs his hand just in time)
MASON: [Fucking bloody hell]
ROXIE: I'm outta here
MASON: Did you see that? I mean just because I wanted some of her hashbrowns
RUBE: I was there
MASON: I've never seen such violence over such small potatoes
RUBE: Oh, that was almost clever
MASON: Why was almost clever Rube?
RUBE: The thing about the hashbrowns being small potatoes
MASON: I don't get it. because hashbrowns are small potatoes
RUBE: Never mind ❋ Jason12 (2006)
[Colleague]: "You should get a promotion."
You:"Oh, [not me], I'm just a small potato."
Friend: "Whose that girl standing there?"
You: "Mary? Ah, [no-one], she's just a small potato." ❋ Butterflytes (2011)
[She is] [such a] [small potato] ❋ Porter's Girl (2016)
Defendant: Your honor, women are funny.
[Prosecutor]: [Objection]! According to [the Small Potato Clause], the courts have found women incapable of being funny.
Judge: O shit, he rite. Sit ur ass down. ❋ SkwidBoyTV (2021)