peanuts (a small amount of money, especially a salary)
köken: Borrowed from English peanuts. Popularized by former Deutsche Bank chairman Hilmar Kopper who used the word to describe a sum of 50 million DM (c. 25 million €).
🔊 Im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen Vereinen sind die TV-Einnahmen deutscher Clubs immer noch nur Peanuts.
small change (coins of little value) · peanuts, (UK) shrapnel (A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary))
çekim: çoğul calderillas
eş: sencillo, morralla, menudo, acetre, caldereta
köken: From caldera + -illa.
🔊 hacía sus ensayos de guapeza yendo a pedir alguna peseta en los billares o timbas de calderilla.
🔊 En los establecimientos donde pago con billetes, recibo la vuelta con aprensión, como si la calderilla pudiera producirme un eccema.
🔊 Si no fuera por mí estaría en la puta calle, arrastrándose por las esquinas, chupándosela a viejos chochos por calderilla
Portekizce 🔊 ninharia (dişil) /nĩ.ɲaˈɾi.ɐ/ trifle; triviality (thing of little importance or worth) · an insignificant amount of money
çekim: çoğul ninharias
eş: caganifância, cafuringa
köken: Borrowed from Spanish niñería (literally “childishness”).
a tiny amount
köken: Compound of 雀(すずめ) (suzume, “sparrow”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 涙(なみだ) (namida, “tear (fluid)”). Literally, “(as little as) a sparrow's tear”.
a pittance, peanuts (meagre or insignificant amount of money)
köken: By surface analysis, spott (“spit”) + styver (“stiver, low-value coin”). Likely derived from German spotten (“scoff, jeer, mock”, verb); compare with Swedish bespotta (“to mock”). Thus literally, “a mockingly low sum”. First attested in 1805.