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شبکه مترجمین ایران
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Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour? that's chicken feed. This expression alludes to the fact that chickens can be fed corn and wheat grains too small for other uses. [Slang; early 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): chicken feed Fig. a small amount of anything, especially of money. (See also for chicken feed. Compare this with for peanuts.) • Of course I can afford $800. That’s just chicken feed. • It may be chicken feed to you, but that’s a month’s rent to me.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs