small fry

短语

a. 次要的, 不重要的, 为儿童设计的, 供儿童用的

发音

AU

词形变化

small fries 复数 small fries

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One or more small or immature fish.

  2. 2.

    One or more children.

    非正式
  3. 3.

    One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

    习语

    The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was a small fry compared to his boss.

    These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

kid child minor fry squirt youngster nipper shaver pipsqueak tyke

上位词 5

nobody juvenile cipher cypher nonentity

下位词 10

silly monkey rascal peanut orphan buster toddler kiddie tot urchin

词源

From small + fry, first use appears c. 1577, in the publications of John Dee.

来源：wiktionary