"small potatoes" meaning in English

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          "text": "My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers.",
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          "text": "He no longer works for individuals, since they are small potatoes compared to his corporate clients.",
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          "ref": "1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, “Unlocking a Woman's Heart”, in Nature and Human Nature, volume 1, page 38",
          "text": "It's small potatoes for a man-o-war to be hunting poor game, like us little fore and afters.\"",
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          "text": "The queen may have outwitted Otto, but he’s small potatoes compared to a master opponent like the Lady of Driftmark.",
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        "(idiomatic) One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value."
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            "of money"
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          "word": "peanuts"
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          "word": "small beer"
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          "word": "small fry"
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