The phrase "trifling things" is correct and usable in written English.
It means insignificant or unimportant matters. Example: The CEO was too busy with important business deals to deal with trifling things like office supplies.
He talks about trifling things like mail service, etc.
Yet, he added, "Trifling things have upset nations, made poor men rich, pulled down kings and exalted beggars before now".
We're buying: Drip, drip, drip You may not have noticed the recent scattered light showers – trifling things, really – but your barnet will most certainly have done.
(The police had been called by neighbors on two occasions -- brawls that started over trifling things like the television or computer and ended with knives being drawn).
The thing about a crew of thirteen hundred — which includes, after all, masseurs, cabaret singers, and wine waiters — is that not all of them are trained, in the British merchant-marine tradition, to keep mum about trifling things like a fire at sea on a maiden voyage in the midst of a Force 10 gale.
Investigating his diary, analysts found entries in the voices of three people -- a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego -- which recorded in numbing detail, over the course of ten years, "what people ate, or wore, or trifling things they said".
This year, it's devils on horseback then goose, sprouts, mashed potatoes and red cabbage, and then this kind of chocolatey trifle thing.
p152 These things, trifling though they may seem, were full of meaning to the new learners.
Even if you consider feats of athleticism to be trifling in the grand scheme of things, there is a chance you still find Ali compelling.
Show those qualities then which are altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity, endurance of labour, aversion to pleasure, contentment with thy portion and with few things, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom from trifling magnanimity.
The worrying thing for eBay is not the size of the LVMH fine itself, which is relatively trifling for the $36.3 billion market cap company.
