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• small fry — {n.} 1. Young children. * /In the park, a sandbox is provided for the small fry./ 2. Something or someone of little importance. * /Large dairies ignore the competition from the small fry who make only a few hundred pounds of cheese a year./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• small fry — {n.} 1. Young children. * /In the park, a sandbox is provided for the small fry./ 2. Something or someone of little importance. * /Large dairies ignore the competition from the small fry who make only a few hundred pounds of cheese a year./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• small fry — small fry, adj. 1. children: a treat for the small fry. 2. unimportant persons or objects: Her parties were closed to the small fry. 3. small or young fish. [1895 1900] * * * …   Universalium

• Fry — Fry, n. [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see {Friction}), but cf. also Icel. fr[ae], frj[=o], seed, Sw. & Dan. fr[ o], Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.] [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• small fry — small′ fry n. pl. 1) very young children 2) unimportant persons or things 3) small or young fish • Etymology: 1895–1900 small′ fry , adj …   From formal English to slang

• small fry — n [U] people or things that are not important when compared to other people or things ▪ There s no point in arresting the small fry …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• small fry — If someone is small fry, they are unimportant. The term is often used when the police arrest the less important criminals, but are unable to catch the leaders and masterminds …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• Fry 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 …   Wikipedia

• fry — 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

• small fry — ► PLURAL NOUN 1) young or small fish. 2) young or insignificant people or things …   English terms dictionary

• fry — ‘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