small-beer
small beer
noun
1.
weak beer.
2.
Chiefly British Slang. matters or persons of little or no importance.
Origin:
1560–70
1560–70
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| small beer | |
| —n | |
| informal chiefly (Brit) people or things of no importance | |
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Small-beer
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
small beer
1560s, originally "weak beer;" used figuratively of small things or trifling matters. Small with the meaning "of low alcoholic content" is attested from mid-15c.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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