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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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How can Pat Kenny possibly tackle the likes of John O'Donoghue about his extravagance when his pay packet makes the Ceann Comhairle cash look like chicken feed.
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And despite appearing in BBC daytime soap Doctors, Martha's pay is still, well, chicken feed.
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DRIVEN TO DESPAIR BY BORIS THE BUFFOON by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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