Big
Small fry
Small fry noun - A young person of either sex.
Both terms in one sentence
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Crysis: Legion claims that Hargreave-Rasch is so big and powerful that even real-world giants like Monsanto and Halliburton are small fry compared to it.
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Bad Guys Play Pool: Subverted with the pool parlor in "Small Fry", in which Small Fry plays hooky from school and comes here to try and be a tough big fry with some of the actual tough big fry, only to be, in polite terms, in over his head.
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Big Bad: Thus far, Starfish seems to fit the bill, though it is fairly clear that he's small fry in the grand scheme of things.
Source: Webcomic / Unsounded
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