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Discover LudwigThe phrase "small potatoes" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is usually used to describe something that is not important or significant in comparison to something else. For example, "Winning a spelling bee championship may seem like a big deal, but it's small potatoes compared to winning a Nobel Prize."
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small potatoes
noun
One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
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Small potatoes?
Small potatoes, you say?
This isn't small potatoes.
Sound like small potatoes?
Small potatoes it appears.
Turkey is small potatoes.
I was small potatoes.
That's still small potatoes.
That's not small potatoes.
though not justified small potatoes.
Don't settle for small potatoes.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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