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chicken feed
chicken feed
Fig. a small amount of anything, especially of money. (See also for chicken feed. Compare this with for peanuts.) Of course I can afford $800. That's just chicken feed. It may be chicken feed to you, but that's a month's rent to me.
chicken feed
a very small amount of money, especially money that is paid for doing a job He pays his labourers chicken feed.
chicken feed
Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour-that's chicken feed. This expression alludes to the fact that chickens can be fed corn and wheat grains too small for other uses. [Slang; early 1800s]
chicken feed
n. a small amount of money. (see also
peanuts.)
It may be chicken feed to you, but that’s a month’s rent to me.