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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 68. The noun phrase

  • today is chicken feed. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Chicken feed

  • is used to refer to a very small or insignificant amount of money. Okay. So

  • let's continue. This noun phrase derives from ... So it derives from you know, it means it comes

  • from. That's where they got it from originally. From the idea that chickens

  • can be fed very cheaply on corn or wheat grain. So it's often thought of as a

  • very cheap amount of money. So that's how that's why they started saying something

  • is chicken feed to refer to a very small amount of something. All right. Let's, let's

  • give several examples here. Example number one. I wouldn't mind doing that

  • job, but the pay is chicken feed. Yeah. The pay is too little. It's too much not enough.

  • So you know, I might not mind doing that job but you know , they they just don't

  • pay enough. It's not worth my time. All right number two here. They say it's

  • not worth selling I would only get chicken feed for it. So maybe something

  • we're thinking about selling but maybe it's it's not even worth the time of the

  • energy to do it because nobody would be willing to give you that much money for

  • it. You'd only get chicken feed for it. Okay good . I'm number three here. There is

  • no use in selling it for scrap metal. Maybe it's some machine or something

  • that's no longer working. They just pay chicken feed these days. And sometimes it

  • depends on the price of certain metals. Sometimes they go up and sometimes

  • they'll go down. Uou know, an industry is a hot and moving and a lot of metal as

  • being used sometimes price is higher. Sometimes it might be worth selling

  • something for scrap metal. And then other times it will go down and really it's

  • sometimes not even worth the trouble of putting it into a truck and bringing it

  • you know to a recycling plant to sell it for scrap metal Well anyway, I hope you

  • got it I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 68. The noun phrase

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