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small beer

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small beer
n.
1. Weak or inferior beer.
2. Unimportant things; trivia.
adj.
Trivial; unimportant.
small beer
n
Informal chiefly Brit people or things of no importance
Small Beer any collection of trifles or trifling matters.
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Noun1.small beersmall beer - something of small importance        
trivia, triviality, trifle
object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"
frippery, frivolity, bagatelle, fluff - something of little value or significance


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Defuncti injuria ne afficiantur was a law of the twelve tables, and De mortuis nil nisi bonum is an excellent injunction -- even if the dead in question be nothing but dead small beer.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
"First, that on the above-mentioned Feast of the Assumption, small beer having been served to the novices in the proportion of one quart to each four, the said brother John did drain the pot at one draught to the detriment of brother Paul, brother Porphyry and brother Ambrose, who could scarce eat their none-meat of salted stock-fish on account of their exceeding dryness,"
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
He resumed this occupation when he was replete with beef, had sucked up all the gravy in the baking-dish with the flat of his knife, and had drawn liberally on a barrel of small beer in the scullery.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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