chump change
noun [mass noun] North American informal
A small or insignificant amount of money: it’s rough, dead-end work that pays chump change...
- The amount of money involved was chump change for a tycoon who got his board to agree to a severance payment that provided enough for a gold watch, a consignment of replacements, the watch factory and an option on the gold mine.
- To everyone except the lucky few, $50,000 is not chump change.
- And, be fair, it's only a handful of chump change out of your salary, so why not, eh?
Origin
1960s: originally black English.
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- occasionalism
- occasionalist
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- occasionality
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- retroserrate
- retrospect
- retrospection
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- retrospectus
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- retro-system
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- retro-transfer
- retrotransposition
- retrotransposon
- retroussage
- retroussé