Noun: small fry
| Singular | small fry |
| Plural | small fry; small fries |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1952 August, Austin Edwards, “The Cranberry and Small Fry Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 556:]
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The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was a small fry compared to his boss.
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These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.
Nouns inflected like small fry
small fry,
Bungy,
pirozhky,
military,
Romany,
atomy,
tunny,
Malagasy,
fokontany,
peroshky,
goby,
Etymology
From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.