单词 | chicken feed |
释义 | ˈchicken ˌfeed noun [uncountable] LITTLE/NOT MUCHan amount of money that is so small that it is almost not worth having 一笔微不足道的钱 The bank offered to lend us £1,000 but that’s chicken feed compared to what we need. 银行提出贷给我们1,000英镑,但这与我们需要的数目相比简直是杯水车薪。Examples from the Corpuschicken feed• Today, the cheapest chicken feed consists of fishmeal, chicken feathers and chicken innards.• The program will cost about $200 million to run, chicken feed compared to NASA's $16 billion budget.• For the same reasons, the proposal also does not apply to chicken feed.• She would lie, steal, cheat for Oliver: burning a few hundred pounds was chicken feed.• The sum was chicken feed, and the more governmental corruption that went on there, the better.• Most of the capital gains reported by these under-$ 50,000 taxpayers were chicken feed.ˈchicken ˌfeed nounChineseSyllable an money small that so it that Corpus amount of is |
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