small fry | Idiomator

Meaning: One or more small orimmaturefish.; (informal)One or morechildren.1952August, Austin Edwards, “The Cranberry andSmall FryLine”, inRailway Magazine, page556:After his death in 1950, his widow and a board of trustees who were left with responsibility of running the cranberry plant decided to continue the miniature railway's services to the "small fry", and it opened as usual on December 6, 1951.; (idiomatic)One or morerelativelysmallandinsignificantindividualsorthingsofrelativelylittleconsequence,importance, orvalue.Synonyms:small potatoes,minnow,nobody,no oneAntonym:big fishThe police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was asmall frycompared to his boss.These slot machines are just thesmall fry. The big games are in the back room.

Examples:

EN: Now, look here, Mrs. Chloe, you're only a small fry in this game, but I've got to use you.
ES: Mire, Srta. Chloe usted forma parte del juego y debo utilizarla.
EN: Say, we're small fry, Sally.
ES: Somos un premio pequeño, Sally.
EN: Oh, I'd lots of offers from small fry, Ford, Chevys but I held out for a town car.
ES: Me han parado muchos coches pequeños, pero yo esperaba un coche grande.
EN: Let's keep the small fry out.
ES: No perdamos el tiempo. Que sean 100.
EN: - Why do you bother with small fry?
ES: -Porque te molestas con menudencias?
EN: - They're just small fry.
ES: Gente de poca monta.
EN: Forget the Governor and the Mayor and all the small fry.
ES: Olvidémonos del Gobernador y del Alcalde. No son importantes.
EN: What you Americans call small fry.
ES: A lo que los americanos llaman pequeños alevines.
EN: The small fry are to serve...
ES: Los de abajo están para servir, no para ser servidos.
EN: Georgia, what are you doing hanging around with small fry like that?
ES: Georgia, ¿qué haces andando con un pelele como ése?
EN: You know the saying of the small fry who'll -
ES: Ya sabes lo que dicen los pequeños que van a...
EN: I don't mind when the small fry do it, but when a whole generation goes up around me and still calls me 'uncle', I feel that I'm coming apart at the joints.
ES: No me importa que me llamen así los compañeros de trabajo de mi edad pero si también lo hacen los jóvenes me siento como un carcamal.
EN: ─ Hiya, small fry.
ES: - Hola.
EN: - Mac was just small fry, until Goran got $200,000 for the big shipment.
ES: McGalvey era algo amigo de Goran, que había cobrado 200.000 dólares por la venta.
EN: Oh, he can't be bothered thinking about small fry.
ES: No se le puede molestar con pequeñeces.

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