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Meaning of 小巫见大巫

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
xiǎo jiàn (Trad.: 小巫見大巫)
lit. minor magician in the presence of a great one (idiom); fig. to pale into insignificance by comparison
Example Sentences
1
Of course it was an abuse of power, but a pathetically small one compared with Iran-Contra.
2
1990
The speed and scale of the slump leaves behind anything that happened after 1990, when Japan' s bubble burst.
3
GDP
73
%
,
150
%
Public debt was high in Germany at 73 percent of GDP, but dwarfed by that of Athens, which is heading toward 150 percent.
4
These huge military expenditure will undoubtly increase the deficit and national debt which is much smaller than the gap of the benefits to the old.
5
One count of the indictment involved their conduct at Auschwitz, but that was of minor significance compared with the other charges.