small time

A modest or minor level of achievement, as in Her success took her out of the small time to prime-time television. This expression was originally used in vaudeville for second-rate theaters and productions. [Early 1900s] Also see big time, def. 2.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vencel	-	Hungarian
Ciriaco	chee-ree-AH-ko (Italian), thee-ree-AH-ko (Spanish), see-ree-AH-ko (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
Bronte	BRAHN-tee	English (Rare)
Chelsea	CHEL-see	English
Krista	KRIS-tah (German), KRIS-tə (English), KREES-tah (Finnish)	German, English, Finnish
Avidan	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew