small beer

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(countable, uncountable) Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%. / (uncountable, figuratively, chiefly Britain) Something that is of relatively little importance.

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After the long hike, we shared a small beer on the porch; its mild flavor and low alcohol content were perfect for the warm afternoon.

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意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%.

It was then that the large footmen were too much employed at Clavering Park to be able to bring messages, or dally over the cup of small beer with the poor little maids at Fairoaks

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意味（2）

(uncountable, figuratively, chiefly Britain) Something that is of relatively little importance.

The income from standard widgets is small beer compared to the income from the gold-plated ones.

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意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, beer.

small beers （ 複数形 ）