What does small beer mean?

small beer means "something of small importance".

What is another word for small beer?

Close synonyms include triviality, trivia, trifle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is small beer a common word?

small beer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

small beer — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
something of small importance
Synonymstriviality trivia trifle
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