Name: 英語導師Nick P名詞短語（68）雞飼料 (English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (68) Chicken Feed)
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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

to 不定詞

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.