small beer

something of little importance the money we spend on cable is small beer compared to the mortgage payment we have to come up with every month Synonyms bagatelle, child's play, frippery, nonproblem, nothing, picayune, shuck(s), trifle, small change, trivialityRelated Words naught (also nought), nothingness, smoke, zero; peanuts, pittance, song, straw, two bits; bunk, claptrap, drivel, folly, fribble, fudge, hogwash, humbug, humbuggery, nonsense, piffle, rot, trash, trivia; bit, crumb, dab, dram, lick, mite, ounce, particle, pinhead, scintilla, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), soupçon, speck, spot, tad, touch, trace