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.