The odd origins of some familiar idioms
Jun 18, 2020
2 minutes
At the end of May, President Donald Trump tweeted that he knew about a scandal that would make Watergate “LOOK LIKE SMALL POTATOES!” When my teenage children saw it, they were confused. They thought “potatoes” was some sort of autocorrect.
According to a totally scientific survey of, and, without context, cannot guess that it means “insignificant or unimportant.”
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