chicken feed

noun — 3 senses

chicken feed

noun

1

Food (usually grain) given to poultry.

2

Idiomatic A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.

Near-synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change
"Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al:

1 more example

The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months […]1998 August 28, Seak Poh Leong, The New Paper, Singapore, page 64:

3

Singlish A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.

BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […]1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, →ISBN, page 16:

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