a drop in the bucket

Definition

› something small and unimportant, esp. when compared with something else: We were paid about $50,000, but that was a drop in the bucket compared to what some other companies got.

(Definition of a drop in the bucket from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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