NOUN
- someone who is small and insignificant
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a young person of either sex
they're just kids
she writes books for children
`tiddler' is a British term for youngster
How To Use small fry In A Sentence
- What they owe to the Inland Revenue is small fry compared to the overall ￡1.2 million debt.
- I feel that the top Indian bloggers such as the ones I've mentioned have a bit of an attitude — they feel superior because they've been doing it so long, and are not as open to what they perceive to be small fry from the Caribbean. Global Voices in English » Talking to Indian-Jamaican writer and blogger Annie Paul
- Traditionally this is done in a horoku (a shallow, oval, unglazed earthenware dish used for slow cooking) over a charcoal fire, but nowadays it is common to use a small frying pan.
- Cut the bacon into lardons and fry in the oil in a small frying pan for about 3-5 minutes until crispy.
- I am a small fry; actually I am just small and no fry because this statement has already fried me.
- These local companies are only small fry compared with the huge multinationals.
- But some small fry's trying to divebomb us from above, so I threaten him with my feather bristle. Embodied
- He carries a foldaway pine stool, a well-thumbed copy of yesterday's Evening Standard and a small frying pan in a crumpled polythene bag.
- The inanga, or small fry of a fresh-water fish, were offended at not being hospitably received on shore by the birds; on the other hand, the birds despised the inanga for being so small. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before
- Ah, you will say, but if publishers don't bother with small fry, then eventually they will run out of big fry, because the big fry will have nowhere to learn their trade.
