How to Use small potato in a Sentence
small potato
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The specifics of the plan — the bigger standard deduction, etc. — are small potatoes compared to that.
—Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
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Gee, this is 'small potatoes' compared to what Hillary Clinton did!
—D. Elizabeth, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2018
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All are terrible and the size of those schemes may make the cannabis industry scandals look like small potatoes.
—Debra Borchardt, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
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Of course, that write-down is small potatoes compared with what happened nearly 16 years ago.
—Charley Grant, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
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That would make mini-cupcakes look like small potatoes.
—Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 17 Oct. 2017
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Still, Monday's weather was small potatoes compared to what will hit the region in a couple days.
—Dale Kasler and Benjy Egel, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
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My only complaints about the Terrain are small potatoes.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2018
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Great idea; that's a few more dollars. Soak the oil companies a little more? Fine, and again, small potatoes compared to our money gap.
—Glenn Cravez, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 June 2017
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Monday's weather was small potatoes compared to what will hit the region late Wednesday.
—Dale Kasler and Benjy Egel, sacbee, 27 Feb. 2018
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In light of the financial industry scandals that followed, the Keating one was small potatoes.
—Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 1 June 2018
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This method works well with nearly all small potatoes – from little red potatoes to fingerlings.
—Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018
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Now that’s no small potatoes, but even more astonishing is that this could be the wettest air mass on record in central California.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
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Don’t think of that household surplus as small potatoes: a single salt kitchen, run by a single household, could have turned out six tons of salt in a single season.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2018
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But that’s small potatoes in the grand scheme of a major hurricane threat. Food losses may be covered by insurance or tax-deductible.
—Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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That will seem like small potatoes to someone paying some 45 percent more for premium fuel.
—National Geographic, 20 May 2016
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But these titans of industry are still small potatoes in the e-cigarette world, with their vapes consistently losing out to new-kid-on-the-block, Juul.
—Rachel Becker, The Verge, 21 Nov. 2018
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For the perfect crunch, smash small potatoes before roasting and for a creamy treat; try simmering celeriac in milk before mashing.
—Plum Organics®, Bon Appetit, 1 Apr. 2017
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Maybe to you, Lady Bird’s critical, nearly twee grandiosity is too earnest, too small potatoes, too corny, too feel-good, too… adolescent girl?
—Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
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Meanwhile, all that tariff money is likely to bring an extra $40 billion of duties to the Treasury this year — small potatoes in the context of a $1 trillion budget deficit, but a sizable sum in its own right.
—David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
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That’s a fine enough interpretation for this cliffhanger and small potatoes compared to the fan theorizing that has followed The Sopranos finale for over a decade.
—Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 May 2018
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So considering some of those previous actions, what Mayfield did seems like small potatoes.
—Tim Griffin, ajc, 20 Nov. 2017
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Deals are in the range of a few hundred million dollars on average — small potatoes compared to Bain’s $18 billion purchase a couple years of ago of Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2019
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That’s small potatoes compared to, say, beauty or gaming influencers boasting tens of millions of followers.
—Erin Griffith, WIRED, 12 June 2018
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But Microsoft’s contracts, which exceed $10 million, are small potatoes compared to the agency’s main suppliers.
—Natasha Frost, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2019
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Image Huckleberry Gold is a small potato, golden within a robe of regal purple, that delivers smooth texture and rich flavor.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 19 June 2018
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That’s small potatoes in a $3 trillion annual federal budget.
—Alex Theodoridis, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
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Those numbers make any emergency funding for disaster relief or military stimulus look like small potatoes.
—Emily Stewart, Vox, 21 Oct. 2018
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On Thursday, the juggernaut planemaker Boeing announced the introduction of self-cleaning toilets, an innovation that makes the issue of extra legroom seem like small potatoes in comparison.
—Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 4 Mar. 2016
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