chump change

Frequency: 5.52.5 per million words

a small amount of money

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Examples (10)

  • $150 million is chump change compared with the potential losses.
  • For a corporation that size, a million-dollar fine is just chump change.
  • He dropped ten thousand dollars on a watch and acted like it was chump change.
  • The initial offer from the investors was basically chump change, so we turned it down.
  • What he spends on a weekend getaway is chump change to a billionaire.
  • The city's budget for park improvements is chump change next to what they spend on highways.
  • Are you seriously offering me this chump change for a week's worth of hard work?
  • He won the lottery, so now his old salary seems like chump change.
  • The poker player threw in another few thousand, treating it like chump change.
  • If we win this major contract, our current profits will look like chump change.