small fry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One or more small or immature fish.
  2. One or more children. informal
    — 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.
  3. One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. idiomatic
    — The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was a small fry compared to his boss.

词形变化

small fry plural small fries plural

词源

From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.
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