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chicken feed
noun
- an insignificant sum of money:
He's so rich that $1000 is chicken feed to him.
- small change, as pennies and nickels.
chicken feed
noun
- slang.a trifling amount of money
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of chicken feed1
Idioms and Phrases
Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour鈥攖hat'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]Example Sentences
Grooming services became a bigger part of the business in recent years, as had selling organic chicken feed and dog food made from avocados.
Mr Da Conceicao said that Mozambique has banned the importation of chickens and their derivatives from South Africa, including eggs and chicken feed.
Costco even built its own chicken plant in Nebraska to combat rising chicken feed prices.
That鈥檚 chicken feed compared with the 350 million tons of meat consumed around the world 鈥 a number that is only expected to grow.
The animal rights group said its investigator also found instances of bugs in some of the chicken feed and rats in the barns where the chickens were housed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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