| 词汇 | small-fry |
| 释义 | small fry noun[ Cusually plural ] informal(alsosmall-fry)uk /ˈsmɔːl ˌfraɪ/ us /ˈsmɑːl ˌfraɪ/pluralsmall fry or small fries somebody or something that is not considered to be important: They may be key players in their own company, but they're small fry in the industry itself.他们可能是自己公司里的核心人物，但在整个行业里却无足轻重。 I am just a small fry compared to a lot of other people who invested. Big international acts perform at the venue, as well as small-fry local bands. US a child: 小孩;儿童 The movie's too scary for small fry. Listen up, small fry - I need you to help me with something. a young fish: Unfortunately, sometimes adult fish eat the small fry. It made me realize how difficult it must be for these birds to continue to catch small fry when the river is so high and fast. The people arrested this week are just small fry, not the gang leaders. All of these exports are still very small fry compared to the car industry. It's not the small-fry company you claim it is. We are not just their small-fry trading partners who can be bullied. Major publishers can't be bothered with books they consider small-fry. People of little importance a cog in a/the machineidiom be past your sell-by dateidiom cannon fodder Cinderella inferior lightweight mediocrity minnow nothing pawn pipsqueak plaything poor poor relationidiom pygmy unknown waste waste of spaceidiom waster worm You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Things of little importance Describing people who are young Hunting & fishing Examples of small frysmall fry But of course we must not target officials as part of a strategy of catching the smallfry and letting the big fish go free. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In other words, they were smallfry who were obeying orders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are all schemes, costing only "smallfry"—a quarter of a million pounds here or there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those are the smallfry, but what about the big fish? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An operation employng 18,000 workers is not smallfry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was only the smallfry who were actually prosecuted and sentenced for breaking sanctions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those two were, in a sense, the smallfry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will not enhance the court's legitimacy if the only people prosecuted are smallfry and losers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the inflated terms of the day, £6 million spread over the next five years sounds fairly smallfry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it does so, much of what we are talking about is smallfry compared to what will in fact happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As with major crimes, the police nail the smallfry but the bigger culprit continues to enjoy unscathed his large house and fat income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He takes no cognisance of the pattern of fraudulent collecting and the convictions for collecting without permits, which unfortunately merely deal with the smallfry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This too is, in my view, another example of a big-country strategy: 'the smallfry will just have to wait'. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The two men so far convicted were smallfry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Supposedly it is all minor —all small stuff, smallfry; it will have no effect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of small fry These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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