"small if" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By comparison with big if.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "small ifs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "small if (plural small ifs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, John C. Wolff Jr., Letters on presidential race, Lexington Herald Leader",
          "text": "I think Donald “The Presumptive” Trump wants Hillary Clinton to go to jail (guilty or not) so he might have (and I think that’s a big “if”) someone to talk to when he is in jail for fraud in the Trump University case (and I think that’s a small “if”).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Mike Rego, Council approves last portion of East Providence water system improvements, EastBayRI",
          "text": "If everything goes according to plan, and that’s a small “if” not a large one, then the last key aspect of the long-term fix to East Providence’s water system was approved by the council at its meeting Tuesday night, June 19.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Streetsblog, Thursday’s Headlines: Civic War Edition, Streetsblog NYC",
          "text": "On Wednesday (see photo right), we reported our confusion about why Riders Alliance was tweeting negative things about a Wall Street Journal story that reported on a new lobbying group, the Campaign for New York’s Future, that sought to influence how our city is reshaped if (and that’s a big “if”) the COVID-19 pandemic passes.... The other huge story of the day is how deeply the MTA will be forced to cut service if (and that’s a small “if”) the federal government fails to provide any more relief funding."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A likely condition."
      ],
      "id": "en-small_if-en-noun-ArPmXqeB",
      "links": [
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ],
        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "small if"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By comparison with big if.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "small ifs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "small if (plural small ifs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, John C. Wolff Jr., Letters on presidential race, Lexington Herald Leader",
          "text": "I think Donald “The Presumptive” Trump wants Hillary Clinton to go to jail (guilty or not) so he might have (and I think that’s a big “if”) someone to talk to when he is in jail for fraud in the Trump University case (and I think that’s a small “if”).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Mike Rego, Council approves last portion of East Providence water system improvements, EastBayRI",
          "text": "If everything goes according to plan, and that’s a small “if” not a large one, then the last key aspect of the long-term fix to East Providence’s water system was approved by the council at its meeting Tuesday night, June 19.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Streetsblog, Thursday’s Headlines: Civic War Edition, Streetsblog NYC",
          "text": "On Wednesday (see photo right), we reported our confusion about why Riders Alliance was tweeting negative things about a Wall Street Journal story that reported on a new lobbying group, the Campaign for New York’s Future, that sought to influence how our city is reshaped if (and that’s a big “if”) the COVID-19 pandemic passes.... The other huge story of the day is how deeply the MTA will be forced to cut service if (and that’s a small “if”) the federal government fails to provide any more relief funding."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A likely condition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ],
        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "small if"
}