chicken feed

chicken feed
chicken feed
Fig. a small amount of anything, especially of money. (See also for chicken feed. Compare this with for peanuts.) •

Of course I can afford $800. That's just chicken feed.

It may be chicken feed to you, but that's a month's rent to me.

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{n.}, {slang} A very small sum of money. * /John and Bill worked very hard, but they were only paid chicken feed./ * /Mr. Jones is so rich be thinks a thousand dollars is chicken feed./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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