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chicken feed
noun
- an insignificant sum of money:
He's so rich that $1000 is chicken feed to him.
- small change, as pennies and nickels.
chicken feed
noun
- slang.a trifling amount of money
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chicken feed1
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Idioms and Phrases
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]Discover More
Example Sentences
To everyone’s amusement, his first program optimized the nutritional content of chicken feed.
Misakyab ku sa sabud sa mga manuk, I threw the chicken feed to the chickens.
"No chicken feed for me," he would say when they were set before him.
However, to do him justice, the transaction was more or less what he would have called "chicken-feed stuff."
Carolus stood in the yard eating Madam Land's chicken-feed and sour milk with excellent appetite.
For this reason this plant is hated by the Syrians, although they use tares very extensively as chicken feed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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