a drop in the bucket

phr

• ① 沧海一粟;九牛一毛
  • To meet its budget the city needs ten million dollars, so that the few thousand dollars which it will gain from the new liquor tax is only a drop in the bucket.为应付预算,该市需要一千万美元,因此从新的酒税中所增收入数千美元,只能算是九牛一毛。