Usually means: Insignificant matters; minor, trivial concerns.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word small potatoes:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. small potatoes: Merriam-Webster
  2. small potatoes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. small potatoes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. small potatoes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. small potatoes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. small-potatoes, small potatoes: Wiktionary
  7. small potatoes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. small potatoes: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. small potatoes: Dictionary.com
  10. Small Potatoes (The X-Files), Small Potatoes, Small potatoes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. SMALL POTATOES: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. small potatoes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. small potatoes: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. small potatoes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. small potatoes: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Small Potatoes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (small potatoes)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

Similar:
small-potatoes, small change, small beer, drop in the bucket, trifle, drop in the pond, mess of pottage, peanuts, row of pins, pocket change, more...

Opposite:
big deal, significant, important, substantial

Types:
insignificant, trivial, unimportant, paltry, meager, trifling, more...

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Similar:
small-potatoes, small change, small beer, drop in the bucket, trifle, drop in the pond, mess of pottage, peanuts, row of pins, pocket change, more...

Opposite:
big deal, significant, important, substantial

Types:
insignificant, trivial, unimportant, paltry, meager, trifling, more...



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