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English idioms

Chicken feed

A very paltry or small amount of anything, especially of money.

“Thousand euros may be a chicken feed to you, but it is a monthly salary to me.”  

Origin
This phrase has two meanings. One is literal and the other is idiomatic. In the literal meaning it is food given to chickens, mostly in the form of  tiny grains. And this is likely how the phrase originated.

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