chicken feed

See also: chickenfeed, and chicken-feed

English

chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
(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 […]
(Singlish) A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.
- 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:
  BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […]

food for poultry

small quantity of money