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means Small fry are people or things of little importance, size, or influence — the minor players next to the big ones.

from Literally fry are newly hatched or very young fish — too small to keep, too small to matter to a fisherman sorting his catch. The word 'fry' in this sense comes from Old French 'frei'/'froie', meaning the spawn or offspring of fish, going back to Latin 'fricare' roots tangled up with notions of spawning. By the 1600s English fishermen were tossing back the small fry as not worth keeping, and by the 1800s the phrase had swum ashore into general use for any people or things too minor to bother with.