097 Chickenfeed

Chickenfeed

(PW) a small amount of money

Taking the whole family on that cruise is certainly not going to be chickenfeed.

 

(MW) Function: noun

Date: 1836

slang : a paltry sum (as in profits or wages)

 

(your) noun Slang.

1.         an insignificant sum of money: He's so rich that $1000 is chicken feed to him.

2.         small change, as pennies and nickels.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism

 

(free)

chicken feed

n. Slang

A trifling amount of money.