penny-ante
adjective
USuk/ˈpen.iˌæn.ti/us/ˈpen.iˌæn.t̬i/of littlevalueorimportance:
没什么价值的;无关紧要的He wasproposingsome penny-anteincrease.他提议略微增加一些。
Of little or less importance
- be in/undersomeone'sshadowidiom
- be neither here nor thereidiom
- be no big dealidiom
- biggie
- derisory
- lowly
- meaningless
- meaninglessly
- meaninglessness
- mere
- merely
- peripheral
- petty
- piffling
- play second fiddleidiom
- poxy
- rinky-dink
- secondarily
- subordinate
- valueless