chicken feed
an insignificant sum of money: He's so rich that $1000 is chicken feed to him.
small change, as pennies and nickels.
Origin of chicken feed
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How to use chicken feed in a sentence
Misakyab ku sa sabud sa mga manuk, I threw the chicken feed to the chickens.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan | John U. Wolff"No chicken feed for me," he would say when they were set before him.
Roads of Destiny | O. HenryHowever, to do him justice, the transaction was more or less what he would have called "chicken-feed stuff."
Galusha the Magnificent | Joseph C. LincolnCarolus stood in the yard eating Madam Land's chicken-feed and sour milk with excellent appetite.
What Happened to Inger Johanne | Dikken ZwilgmeyerFor this reason this plant is hated by the Syrians, although they use tares very extensively as chicken feed.
The Syrian Christ | Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
British Dictionary definitions for chicken feed
slang a trifling amount of money
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Other Idioms and Phrases with chicken feed
Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour—that's chicken feed. This expression alludes to the fact that chickens can be fed corn and wheat grains too small for other uses. [Slang; early 1800s]
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