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chicken feed

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chicken feed
Fig. a small amount of anything, especially of money. (See also for chicken feed. Compare this with for peanuts.) Of course I can afford $800. That's just chicken feed. It may be chicken feed to you, but that's a month's rent to me.
See also: chicken, feed

chicken feed
a very small amount of money, especially money that is paid for doing a job He pays his labourers chicken feed.
See also: chicken, feed


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Part of the rise has come on falling trade barriers but also on low-cost production: Chicken feed made from corn and soy is grown not far from many poultry farms, cutting freight costs.
95) receives Paulette Bogan's fun drawings as it tells of Nuthatcher Farm when chickens get sick of the same old chicken feed and the roster decides to remedy the problem.
Arsenic used in chicken feed may pose threat: Hopkins study explores risk to consumers, water.
 
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