The phrase "a small pleasure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a minor enjoyment or satisfaction derived from something simple or trivial.
Example: "After a long day at work, enjoying a cup of tea in silence is a small pleasure that I cherish."
Alternatives: "a simple joy" or "a minor delight."
A high cost for a small pleasure.
Either way, it's meant to be a small pleasure, a teensy weekend jolly-up.
Oh wow!" It's a small pleasure, but one that's sadly all too rare these days.
There's nothing wrong, for a change of pace, with wanting a small pleasure, like a seat by the fireplace.
"We can offer a small pleasure that is healthier, cheaper and cleaner, which is what every smoker wants to hear," said Mr. Clari.
Over the last decade, a small pleasure has been to drive back for a long weekend, telling friends and employers, "I'll be unreachable on my cell".
In a harbor filled with small pleasure boats, it seemed out of place.
Set in the small Belfast bungalow where Francis and Loretta share the day shift tending to an (unseen) ailing, 85-year-old man whose life has been reduced to a few small pleasures — betting the horses, reading The Daily Mail, listening to his beloved Frank Sinatra — "Fly Me to the Moon" mines bitter laughter from the desperate measures the women take when their patient has an accident.
By the way, and speaking of western Canada, the re-migration of an N.H.L. hockey team, albeit not exactly the same one, back home to Winnipeg is a source of, well, some small pleasure, particularly because it neatly demonstrates what this awful Commissioner has spent a decade denying, namely, that it helps to have hockey teams in cities with winters.
Whatever the case, these figurative sketches are always illuminating, and they provide a small literary pleasure of their own along the way.
Some people ask for a sandwich, but mostly it's requests for hot chocolate, specific chocolate bars, something to provide a small fleeting pleasure.
