chicken feed
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chicken feed
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- A small or trifling amount of money: small change. Informal peanut (used in plural). Slang two bits. See big/small/amount, money.
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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]
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chicken feed
IN BRIEF: n. - A trifling sum of money, Food for hens.
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang:
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chicken-feed
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noun, orig US
Something of little importance, esp. a trifling sum of money. (1937 —) .
New Review In peacetime, officers in the British Army were men of independent means to whom their Army pay was chicken-feed (1941).
[From earlier sense, food for chickens.]
noun, orig US
Something of little importance, esp. a trifling sum of money. (1937 —) .
New Review In peacetime, officers in the British Army were men of independent means to whom their Army pay was chicken-feed (1941).
[From earlier sense, food for chickens.]
| chicken ranch, chicken colonel, chicken | |
| chickenshit, chicklet, chief |
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- Money, Currency, and Denominations - chicken feed: Slang. insignificant amount of money
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