small beer meaning

Noun: small beer  smol bir [N. Amer], smol biu(r) [Brit]

1. Something of small importance
   - triviality, trivia, trifle

Derived forms: small beers

Type of: object, physical object

Encyclopedia: Small beer

[American slang]
n. nothing or next to nothing; an insignificant person.
• The guy is just a small beer. Pay him no mind.
• Small beer or not, he's my customer, and I will see that he is taken care of.

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1. berlin, macmillan said, seemed to him small beer compared to the destruction of humanity.
2. we had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night, porridge and small beer was my uncle's diet.
3. oh, a small beer-some kind of lager will do
4. i won't turn out for small beer and biscuits, tell her
5. don't listen to henry; he's small beer