small frynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈsmɔːl ˌfraɪ/us/ˈsmɑːl ˌfraɪ/informalpeople or things that are not considered to be important:
They may be key players in their own company, but they're small fry in the industry itself.
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People of little importance
- a cog in a/the machine idiom
- be past your sell-by date idiom
- cannon fodder
- cipher
- inferior
- lightweight
- mediocrity
- minnow
- nothing
- past
- pawn
- pipsqueak
- plaything
- poor
- poor relation idiom
- pygmy
- waste
- waste of space idiom
- waster
- worm
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Things of little importance