Sentence examples for earned peanuts from inspiring English sources

I earned peanuts.

But in recent years, savers have earned peanuts on their assets, whereas debtors have gained relatively little from low rates, because most of their debts are at fixed rates (see right-hand chart).

I'm still paying some of those bills off," says Barrera. "My first year we earned peanuts compared to the males.

One demonstrator said: "We work very hard to earn peanuts.

As a consequence, writers are earning peanuts, films aren't making back their cost, and the cultural end of days is nigh.

But governments also step in to prop up asset prices (in housing, for example) so the great bargains don't appear.Economists don't seem to bother about the normal saver, currently earning peanuts in a money market fund.

"Too often illegal logging crackdowns target the impoverished chainsaw operator who is merely a foot soldier earning peanuts," Rod Taylor, W.W.F.'s international forest program director, said in an e-mail.

She fiddles, on spec, with a screenplay of Graham Greene's novel "The Heart of the Matter" and looks down on her husband for earning peanuts in a "city of zillionaires" (even though, with his grudging support, she left her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office to bear children).

Apple earns peanuts in money market instruments.

ExxonMobil sits smugly on $32 billion in liquid assets earning peanuts.

Pandora founder Tim Westergren denied claims that musicians earn peanuts from streaming services and said today at SF MusicTech that lower royalty rates would bolster innovation.