Beer : noun La beer is an alcoholic drink fermented, made withbarley sprouted and flavored with flowers de hop.
Small beer: not much, ordinary, of little importance, low end, worthless, of little value.
It is (it is not) a small beer: it is (it is not) an unimportant trifle.
Do not take yourself for small beer: for nothing, to be proud.
Rinsed like a beer glass: Failed, mediocre, without intellectual resources; without money.
– Quote from the French writer Jacky Schwartzmann in his novel Shit published by Editions du Seuil in 2023: “Claude died last night. His next featuring with alcohol it will be put into beer.