small beer
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small beer
noun small beers
- Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%. It was then that the large footmen were too much employed at Clavering Park to be able to bring messages, or dally over the cup of small beer with the poor little maids at Fairoaks
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Something that is of relatively little importance.
The income from standard widgets is small beer compared to the income from the gold-plated ones.
Similar: peanuts, small potatoes, bagatelle, bag of shells, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, inconsequential, flamfew, flyspeck
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, beer.
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noun beer with low alcohol content
| Deutsch | Dünnbier |
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noun something of little importance
| Español | el chocolate del loro |
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Talk about this word "small beer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/small%20beer. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. small beer. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/small%20beer "small beer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/small%20beer.Cite this
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title = {small beer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/small%20beer},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
