chicken feed | Idiomator

Meaning: Food(usuallygrain) given topoultry.; (idiomatic)A verysmallorinsignificantquantity, especially ofmoney.1916,Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, inYou Know Me Al:"Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man overchicken feedlike $10?"1998August 28, Seak Poh Leong,The New Paper, Singapore, page64:The 20 per cent cut ischicken feedcompared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months[…]; (Singlish)Atrivialoreasytask; apiece of cake.1994, C. S. Chong,NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted inJack Tsen-Ta Lee,A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English,→ISBN, page16:BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS)[…]

Examples:

EN: I'm through with that chicken feed.
ES: He terminado con esa calderilla.
EN: Well, here's a little chicken feed to start with.
ES: Aquí tenéis un pequeño aperitivo para empezar.
EN: Remember that's only chicken feed.
ES: Esas son miserias.
EN: That's just chicken feed.
ES: Son solo migajas.
EN: Never mind the chicken feed.
ES: Pasad de la calderilla.
EN: - It's only chicken feed.
ES: - Unas migajas.
EN: And I thought if... Well, if you'd let me pay, say, $20 of it every... 20 a week? Say, I ain't interested in chicken feed.
ES: He pensado que si, bueno, si me permite pagarle 20 dólares...
EN: I don't want that chicken feed.
ES: No quiero esa miseria.
EN: Well, they got a lot of nerve bothering Marko about chicken feed like that.
ES: Qué descarados, molestar a Marco... por una suma tan insignificante.
EN: I collected chicken feed for a while, see.
ES: Recaudé sumas insignificantes un tiempo, ¿sabéis? .
EN: - Bye, chicken feed.
ES: - Adiós, pequeñita.
EN: After the money she got from her dead husband's insurance why, it's just chicken feed.
ES: Comparado con el dinero del seguro de su marido esa cantidad no es más que calderilla.
EN: That ain't chicken feed, baby.
ES: Eso no es una minucia.
EN: Why, that bank is chicken feed...
ES: ¿Pero esto qué es?
EN: - Say, that ain't chicken feed!
ES: - ¡No está nada mal!

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