peanuts

peanuts
A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary).

Its a fun job, but it pays peanuts.


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  • Peanuts — a humorous US ↑cartoon strip (=a set of drawings that tell a story in a newspaper or magazine) by Charles Schultz, about a boy called Charlie ↑Brown, who is nice but not very confident and often unlucky. Other characters include his dog Snoopy,… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • Peanuts — Belanglosigkeit; Bagatelle; Kleinigkeit; Pillepalle (umgangssprachlich); Kleinkram (umgangssprachlich); Kinkerlitzchen (umgangssprachlich); Unwichtigkeit; Lappalie; …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Peanuts — I hated one of my summer jobs as a kid because it paid peanuts. The full expression is that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. It is a fairly derogatory way of saying that manual labour doesn t need to be bright and doesn t need a lot of pay.… …   The American's guide to speaking British

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