Small Potatoes

small, insignificant; small or insignificant in quantity

comes from the Irish potatoe famine from 1845 - 1849, as potatoes was the main food source in Ireland. Used to describe the small surviving potatoes that were picked

Those coins are small potatoes; we're not going to use them later on

by stanzz October 29, 2006

small potatoes

Something that is of small importance or is little.

From the Show "Dead Like Me":

MASON: Are you going to finish those hashbrowns?
ROXIE: Probably not
(takes them from her plate and eats them. Roxie stabs him with her
knife but he movs his hand just in time)
MASON: Fucking bloody hell
ROXIE: I'm outta here
MASON: Did you see that? I mean just because I wanted some of her hashbrowns
RUBE: I was there
MASON: I've never seen such violence over such small potatoes
RUBE: Oh, that was almost clever
MASON: Why was almost clever Rube?
RUBE: The thing about the hashbrowns being small potatoes
MASON: I don't get it. because hashbrowns are small potatoes
RUBE: Never mind

by Jason12 October 05, 2006

Small potatoes

Not a big deal

After a fuck she enjoys arsenic in small potatoes.

by Hardly Q January 04, 2021

small potatoes

i really dont know the background of this saying but you say it refering to something small.

me-now dog,why would you cause thisfracas with your dad over such small potatoes?
chris-nigga what potatoes got to do wit dis?

by zxulu tha big lip bandit November 18, 2004

small potatoes

Something that is of small importance or is little.

From the Show "Dead Like Me":

MASON: Are you going to finish those hashbrowns?
ROXIE: Probably not
(takes them from her plate and eats them. Roxie stabs him with her
knife but he movs his hand just in time)
MASON: Fucking bloody hell
ROXIE: I'm outta here
MASON: Did you see that? I mean just because I wanted some of her hashbrowns
RUBE: I was there
MASON: I've never seen such violence over such small potatoes
RUBE: Oh, that was almost clever
MASON: Why was almost clever Rube?
RUBE: The thing about the hashbrowns being small potatoes
MASON: I don't get it. because hashbrowns are small potatoes
RUBE: Never mind

by Jason12 October 04, 2006

small potato

The name of a lower ranked employee, unpopular friend or person.

Colleague: "You should get a promotion."

You:"Oh, not me, I'm just a small potato."

Friend: "Whose that girl standing there?"

You: "Mary? Ah, no-one, she's just a small potato."

by Butterflytes June 01, 2011

Small Potato

A small and useless object.

Synonymous to knick knack or Aleia

She is such a small potato

by porter's girl April 20, 2016