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chicken feed

also chickenfeed
uncountable noun
If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
I was making a million a year, but that's chicken feed in the pop business.

chicken feed in British English

noun
slang
a trifling amount of money

chicken feed in American English

US
Slang
an insignificant sum of money

chicken feed

a very small amount of money
The £70,000-a-year that we receive from our sponsors is chicken feed compared tothe £20m budgets available to some of our rivals.
something unimportant, especially in comparison to another thing
Ordinarily, this late in the campaign, presidential candidates don't play aroundwith chicken feed like this.

Examples of 'chicken feed' in a sentence
chicken feed

He said he'd done everything the IMF and the World Bank had told him to, yet all he got was chicken feed.
Dexter Petley WHITE LIES (2003)
And that will be just chicken feed compared to how much we'll rake in once we take over the whole underground.
Carey, M. V. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39) (2003)
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