penny ante



penny ante

  (American)
of little value or importance He was proposing some penny ante increase in child-care that amounted to an extra ten dollars a week. We were burgled but they didn't take much - just penny ante stuff in the front office.
See also: ante, penny

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Brice[brais]
Zulfiqar-Arabic
LotteLAW-tə (German)Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German
MilÉNa-Hungarian
Zsigmond-Hungarian
Moss-English (Archaic), Jewish