small-time informal

This is going to be a very challenging time for retailers, big and small.

Within quite a small time they will strip it to the bones.

"That will be difficult to make in the small time remaining."

Brown promised them an education first, and if things worked out, a shot at hitting it big in the small time.

All of this attention made the Huskies feel something other than small time.

But we have had a very small time to prepare.

Yet there was still a small time left for sleep.

Now there was a small time for relaxation, letting go.

"This must be small time compared to what you're used to."

He was strictly small time, near as I can tell.