small+fry

  • 51fry — See: OTHER FISH TO FRY, OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE, SMALL FRY …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 52fry — See: other fish to fry, out of the frying pan into the fire, small fry …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 53small — adj 1. little, tiny, teeny, pint sized; wee, mini, short, Inf. sawed off, snub; Inf. teeny weeny, Inf. itty bitty, Inf. itsy bitsy, Inf. itty, Inf. eensy ween sy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, dwarf, Inf. peewee; baby, bantam,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 54small potatoes — Synonyms and related words: Middle America, a nobody, a nothing, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, cipher, common man, dummy, figurehead, fourth rater, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, middle… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 55small potatoes — noun One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value. My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers. Syn: peanuts, small beer, small fry …

    Wiktionary

  • 56small time — Synonyms and related words: dinky, insignificant, jerkwater, lesser, measly, niggling, one horse, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, poky, punk, puny, secondary, small, small beer, small fry, tinhorn, two bit, two by… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 57small fries — plural of small fry but not commonly in use; more likely to mean small French fried potatoes …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 58Fry Canyon, Utah — Fry Canyon is a small community in San Juan County, Utah, USA, located in Fry Canyon, on State Route 95 and just south of the White Canyon River. Fry Canyon is a former uranium boom town during the 1950s. The tiny hamlet, almost a ghost town now …

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  • 59fry — fry1 [frī] vt., vi. fried, frying [ME frien < OFr frire < L frigere, to fry < IE base * bher , to bake, roast > Pers birištan, to fry] 1. to cook or be cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in hot fat or oil 2.… …

    English World dictionary

  • 60fry — ‘cook in fat’ [13] and fry ‘young fish’ [14] are quite distinct words. The former comes via Old French frire from Latin frīgere, a cooking term which covered what we would now distinguish as ‘roasting’ and ‘frying’. It goes back ultimately to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins