penny-ante
1Penny Ante — was a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right . Played from January 25, 1979 through June 14, 2002, it was played for a prize worth more than $3,000, and it used grocery items.The game was played on the 1980s UK… …
2penny-ante — (adj.) cheap, trivial, 1935, from PENNY (Cf. penny) + ANTE (Cf. ante), in reference to poker played for insignificant stakes …
3Penny-ante — is an independent Los Angeles based journal in book form published once a year, compiling a wide range of written and visual works, personal photographs and other mixed means of documentation [http://www.myspace.com/pennyante] from artists,… …
4penny ante — penny .ante adj AmE informal involving very small amounts of money, and not important ▪ penny ante schemes to make money …
5penny-ante — penny ,ante adjective AMERICAN INFORMAL not important, especially because of not involving much money: penny ante drug dealers …
6penny ante — (USA) Something that is very unimportant is penny ante …
7penny ante — ☆ penny ante n. 1. a game of poker in which the ante or limit is a very small amount, as one cent 2. any trifling undertaking …
8penny-ante — /pen ee an tee/, adj. Informal. 1. involving a trifling sum of money; small in amount: a penny ante investment. 2. inconsiderable; minor; small time. [1930 35, Amer.] * * * pennˈy anˈte adjective Of no great value or significance • • • Main Entry …
9penny-ante — mod. trivial; cheap. (See also ante.) □ I’m sick of this penny ante stuff. Let’s get serious. □ Max moved from penny ante crimes into drugs …
10penny ante — American of little value or importance. He was proposing some penny ante increase in child care that amounted to an extra ten dollars a week. We were burgled but they didn t take much just penny ante stuff in the front office …
