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chump change
noun[ U ]
USinformaluk /ˈtʃʌmp ˌtʃeɪndʒ/ us /ˈtʃʌmp ˌtʃeɪndʒ/
an amount of money that is too small to be important:
A $60,000 fine is chump change for the firm, but the harm they did to individuals was huge.
A 1% management fee on a trillion dollars is $10 billion a year, which is not exactly chump change.
Next to a $200 million investment, $2 million was chump change.
He donated $30 million - hardly chump change.
That year the government spent roughly $900 million on research into renewables, hydrogen, and efficiency - chump change compared with the billions they spent on fossil fuels.
Compared with his contemporaries, he makes chump change.
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