Sentence examples for a small fry from inspiring English sources

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Small fry.

If someone is small fry, they are unimportant.

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He's still a small fry in the hip-hop economy.

The Guardian has shown the Prince of Wales to be a small fry in this ocean.

"I am such a small fry that it seems completely insane," she said.

"I'm a small fry compared to most of the other people," Mr. Liccardi said on Tuesday, "but I'm hurt more.

"But it would be unfair to use such a big hammer on a small fry who owes a few hundred dollars".

As a small fry, it lives near the surface, eating plankton, but as it gets larger it descends to deeper waters, becoming a fish eater.

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A potential 30percentt margin of error on my daily cardiovascular exercise is somewhere between a hash brown and a small fries on the McDonald's scale.

(Think of a small-fry version of a Beatles concert).

A full-throttle thriller about a small-fry gangster called Riva, who steals a truckload of oil from his boss and hits Kinshasa's clubs, flashing the cash.

Like a boy trying on his father's suit, "Middlesex" is a small-fry in a big jacket.Raised as a girl, the protagonist Calliope Stephanides is discovered at 14 to have a shy but increasingly insistent penis.

The official finding of suicide has been dismissed by activists convinced she was murdered by the officers smarting at her objections to being jailed following a small-fry traffic stop.

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