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• s  of minor importance
  a small-time actor

• After Reid's arrest, the bare bones of his life as a small-time London crook came out, and he claimed to have made the bomb from a recipe on the Internet.
• To be sure, he and his sister Adele had worked their way from Omaha through small-time vaudeville to stage stardom in New York and London.
• Readers were fascinated that a small-time hood could end up being part of the biggest heist in British history and be the only one to get away with it all.

• nickel-and-dime

News & Articles

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• Convicted thief charged again
  PEKIN — As he turned 18 this spring, Michael J.C. Smith also turned to a path of small-time burglaries while living in an abandoned trailer. Fresh out of jail, he returned home last week, allegedly to steal from his family.
  June 13, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• Jurors must decide who Whitey Bulger was
  A prosecutor and a defense lawyer presented jurors with dueling portraits of accused Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Wednesday: Was he a "hands-on killer" and top FBI informant or a small-time gangster who never squealed to the feds?Nearly two decades after Bulger went on the lam, his federal racketeering trial is finally under way. The 83-year-old head of the Winter Hill Gang faces 32 ...
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Two faces of Whitey Bulger drawn as opens
  A prosecutor and a defense lawyer presented jurors with dueling portraits of accused Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Wednesday: Was he a "hands-on killer" and top FBI informant or a small-time gangster who never squealed to the feds?
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Amare Stoudemire in SI.com
  It's just small-time techs,Stoudemire said. "It's not like I'm cursing or using profanity toward them. They are just small-time techs and they really want to crack down on them."
• Barack Obama in Forbes
  If other folks want to engage in those kinds of small-time tactics then that's their prerogative, but that's not what we're going to focus on,Obama said, according to a transcript provided by his campaign.
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Hindu
  Guys coming from small-time towns are generally mentally and physically tougher than those coming from the metros. The infrastructure and facilities are not there and so players from smaller towns have to work harder,Dhoni said during the...