What is Small Potatoes?
1.
small, insignificant; small or insignificant in quantity
comes from the Irish potatoe famine from 1845 - 1849, as potatoes was the main food source in Ireland. Used to describe the small surviving potatoes that were picked
Those coins are small potatoes; we're not going to use them later on
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2.
i really dont know the background of this saying but you say it refering to something small.
me-now dog,why would you cause this
fracas with your dad over such small potatoes?
chris-nigga what potatoes got to do wit dis?
3.
Something that is of small importance or is little.
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
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4.
Something that is of small importance or is little.
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
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