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small change
noun
- coins of small denomination.
- someone or something insignificant or trifling:
Those people are small change.
small change
noun
- coins, esp those of low value
- a person or thing that is not outstanding or important
Word History and Origins
Origin of small change1
Example Sentences
We are proud that our film could be a catalyst for even a small change in the ways these boys are treated in China.
It takes audiences inside the human spirit as a very small change makes an enormous difference.
Make one small change toward a healthier lifestyle every week.
He took off his hat, and moved mechanically toward the stand; and there he found a small change that was a great one to him.
He handed these to the Captain, who hastily looked over them, handed back the tobacco and other things and the small change.
Beauties and joys he was to keep for pocket-money; small change is sometimes great gain.
It is true that women went for twenty-four hours without food, but the reason was the lack of small change, not of eatables.
He looked it out from a handful of small change, folded it in some crumpled paper, and gave it to me.
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