chicken feed

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chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

  1. Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
  2. (idiomatic) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
    • 1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al:
      "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"
    • 1998 August 28, Seak Poh Leong, The New Paper, Singapore, page 64:
      The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months […]
  3. (Singlish) A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.

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