chicken feed

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chicken feed definition


  1. n.
    a small amount of money. (See also peanuts.) : It may be chicken feed to you, but that's a month's rent to me.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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chicken feed

Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hourthat'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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