chump change

noun

: a relatively small or insignificant amount of money

Examples of chump change in a Sentence

what seems like a huge amount of money to most people is only chump change to a billionaire

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Suddenly, even impressive earnings from mid-budget movies were starting to look like chump change compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars franchises could turn in with the promise of sequels. —

Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 Working over nine days in Ireland with the chump change left over from another Corman production, Coppola was asked to do a no-budget Psycho and delivered a film that Corman had to reshoot to deem releasable. —

Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 Compared with almost $4.7 trillion in gross taxes, that’s chump change. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2024 As for any cost associated with a council expansion, that’s chump change compared to the cost of inadequate representation. —

Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for chump change