small beer in English
noun
1
a thing that is considered unimportant.
even with $10,000 to invest, you are still small beer for most stockbrokers
2
weak beer.
His drinks cellar would have been stocked with vast quantities of strong beer and small beer (a weaker brew), as well as a range of wines such as claret and canary (a light, sweet wine from the Canaries).
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1. 17 This would bring about a de facto prohibition that will make drug prohibition seem like small beer.
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