"frivolous matters" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means trivial or unimportant things. Example: The meeting was supposed to focus on important business decisions, but instead, it was filled with discussions about frivolous matters such as office decorations and holiday parties.
"To kill time," an English phrase that still chills me: time can be killed but only by frivolous matters and purposeless activities.
Does the fate of mobile-phone giants really hinge on such apparently frivolous matters?Calling the shotsIn fact, losing its edge in handset design was one of three problems that caused Nokia to stumble last year.
Combining movement with speech and vocal outcries, she tottered, screamed in horror and made disconnected comments about such serious and frivolous matters as segregation, the Supreme Court, President John F. Kennedy's assassination and Perry Como's shorts.
He is not the only one to have challenged Hill's portrayal in the press, detecting sexism in the way she is presented as an angry woman who deals with frivolous matters (reporting of the trousers dispute has inevitably descended, in some quarters, to a discussion of all three women's clothing), while the wonkish Timothy does the brainy policy stuff.
Harmful stereotypes of today's young people as careless slackers who only have interests in frivolous matters are common.
Given the huge numbers of youth of color who are arrested for and charged with all sorts of frivolous matters, or effectively labeled as menaces to society, this lack of precision opens the door to a large quantity of denied applications.
This is no frivolous matter.
Death, however blithely rendered, was not a frivolous matter on television 20 and 30 years ago.
When Obama returned to Washington, Republicans accused him of diminishing the office of president, and using up too much American political capital on such a frivolous matter.
"Rather than continuing to spend time and money arguing, and laying off employees to fight what we believed was a frivolous matter, we settled this case and ended the discussion," she said.
Judge Fitzgerald, who used the phrase "unbelievably careless" several times, said it was not a frivolous matter and he told the lawyers to prove the texts had been disclosed.
