{"id":16010,"date":"2023-02-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plainenglish.com\/?post_type=lingo&p=16010"},"modified":"2024-04-24T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:48:42","slug":"small-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"lingo","link":"https:\/\/plainenglish.com\/lingo\/small-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Small potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Something is “small potatoes” if it’s small in comparison to others of the same type. For example, a typical movie budget might be between $50 million and $100 million. The movie “Rust” had a production budget of just $7 million. That’s small potatoes. Why? Although $7 million is a lot of money in some contexts, it’s not in comparison to a typical movie. Therefore, a movie that has a budget comparatively small is “small potatoes.”<\/p>\n
Google recently had to settle a lawsuit with the residents of the state of California. The search giant paid $23 million–or about three times the budget of the movie “Rust.” However, this is small potatoes for such a big company. Google makes about that much profit every three hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Something is ‘small potatoes’ if it’s small in comparison with other similar things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":22573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"terminology_category":[139],"lesson_number":[2119],"keywords":[2124,2123],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n