词汇 | chump-change |
释义 | chump change noun[ U ] USinformaluk /ˈtʃʌmp ˌtʃeɪndʒ/ us /ˈtʃʌmp ˌtʃeɪndʒ/ an amount of money that is too small to be important: A $60,000 fine is chump change for the firm, but the harm they did to individuals was huge. A 1% management fee on a trillion dollars is $10 billion a year, which is not exactly chump change. Next to a $200 million investment, $2 million was chump change. He donated $30 million - hardly chump change. That year the government spent roughly $900 million on research into renewables, hydrogen, and efficiency - chump change compared with the billions they spent on fossil fuels. Compared with his contemporaries, he makes chump change. Small amounts of money a drop in the oceanidiom bagatelle bobbin chickenfeed drop microcredit miserly mountain biking not a red centidiom paltry peanut pennyworth pittance pocket money princely red shrapnel sou trifling |
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